Introduction to Sociology Practice Exam

What is education ?

• It is where you go to school to get more knowledge

• A social institution through which society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.

• A social institution through which societies children are taught how to eat and sleep and learn how to be a robot and learn the academic elements of being cyborg

• A social institution where they go and learn how to work on a car .

What would you learn in education?

• Academic knowledge-math, science, literature, etc.
  Learning skills-observe, think critically, memorization techniques, etc.
  Cultural norms-when to be silent, resolve conflict, relationship behaviors, etc

• Interaction with others, mass media, learning through trial and error
  -Modern societal knowledge is not taught by instinct, need formal and informal
  education to survive and thrive

• Learn how to use the toilet and learn the basic formal and learn how to calculate the biggest formal ever.

• Nothing education is usless and you do'nt learn aything it is more for the soial aspect of the wholething.

True or False? Formal education is based on learning facts of academic facts and concepts

• True

• False

What type of education is this

• Formal

• Informal

• Both

• none

Informal education is Learning about ___________________________ in a society.

• cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors
• Math science and English

• How to write an essay

• How to learn algebra

Which one of these is the best definition of Cultural Transmission:

• The way people come to learn the values, beliefs, and social norms of their culture.

• The way the people transfer their culture to their outside cultures

• How people become a Michigan wolverine

• The way people come to learn the arithmetic of their state .

True or false? Cultural Transmission is mostly learned through interactions mass media or trial or error .

• True

• False

what is Universal Access ?

• People’s equal ability to participate in an education system.

• Interaction with others, mass media, learning through trial and error

• quality depends on resources provided, public support, perceived value

what is the definition of Manifest function (functionalist)

• Socialization, norms, core values of the nation, conformity to law, upward mobility

• where the united states wanted to manifest the whole continue

• Where you want something

how dose social placements have something to do with education in the eyes of functionalist?

• education as one of the major methods used by people for
  upward social mobility

• education is not a major method to get upward social mobility .

• It has nothing to do with this in the slitist

• I don´t know