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Sociology: Education

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Teaching knowledge and skills, transmission of culture, and social integration are all examples of

a)

Conflict Perspective

b)

Functionalist Perspective

c)

Interactionist Perspective

d)

Hidden Curriculum

2.

Student-teacher interaction and interactions among students are examples of which theoretical perspective?

a)

Conflict Perspective

b)

Functionalist Perspective

c)

Interactionist Perspective

d)

Hidden Curriculum

3.

Social control, tracking, and education and socioeconomic status are all examples of which theoretical perspective?

a)

Conflict Perspective

b)

Functionalist Perspective

c)

Interactionist Perspective

d)

Homeschooling

4.

Public schools that focus on particular disciplines or areas, such as fine arts or science is known as?

a)

Charter schools

b)

Cram Schools

c)

Homeschooling

d)

Magnet Schools

5.

A non-bureaucratic approach to education based on democracy, flexibility, and non-competitiveness is known as?

a)

Open Classroom

b)

Voucher System

c)

Back-to-Basics

d)

Charter Schools

6.

An approach to education based on student-teacher collaboration is known as?

a)

Cooperative Learning

b)

Charter School

c)

Integrative Curriculum

d)

Homeschooling

7.

Schools run by private companies on government funds are known as?

a)

Charter schools

b)

For-profit schools

c)

Homeschooling

d)

Education

8.

Instructional method that relies on cooperation among students rather than on competition is known as?

a)

Voucher system

b)

Homeschooling

c)

Integrative Curriculum

d)

Cooperative Learning

9.

Supporters of this way of teaching pushed for a return to traditional curriculum (reading, writing, and arithmetic) based on more bureaucratic methods

a)

Homeschooling

b)

Back-to-Basics

c)

Voucher system

d)

For-profit schools

10.

Public schools that are operated like private schools by public school teacher and administrators are known as?

a)

Cram Schools

b)

Charter Schools

c)

Magnet Schools

d)

Homeschooling

11.

System in which public school funds may be used to support public, private, or religious schools are know as?

a)

Voucher system

b)

For-profit schools

c)

Back-to-Basics

d)

Education

12.

A system of roles and norms that ensures the transmission of knowledge, values, and patterns of behavior from one generation to the next is known as?

a)

Schooling

b)

Functional Perspective

c)

Education

d)

Back-to-Basics

13.

Instruction by specially trained teachers who follow officially recognized policies is known as?

a)

Education

b)

Schooling

c)

Bilingual Education

d)

Homeschooling

14.

After-school schools that prepare students for admittance to the "right" colleges and are found all over Japan are known as?

a)

Charter Schools

b)

Magnet Schools

c)

Cram Schools

d)

Homeschooling

15.

A system in which a child's main education is undertaken by a parent at home is known as?

a)

Education

b)

Schooling

c)

Homeschooling

d)

Voucher system

16.

A system in which non-English speakers study science, math, and other subjects in their native language until they gain fluency in English is an example of?

a)

Bilingual Education

b)

ESL

c)

Schooling

d)

Cram Schools

17.

The negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system (bullying, drugs, fights, peer pressure, stress, etc.) is known as?

a)

Dysfunction

b)

Latent function

c)

Manifest function

d)

Conflict Perspective

18.

The unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society (sports, friendships form, respect, leadership skills, patriotism, etc.)

a)

Dysfunction

b)

Latent Function

c)

Manifest Function

d)

Functionalism

19.

Intended and recognized consequence of some element of society (school's main function is to get an education)

a)

Dysfunction

b)

Latent Function

c)

Manifest Function

d)

Functionalism

20.

Involves the assignment of students to different types of educational programs such as general studies, vocational training, or college-preparatory studies based on test scores, teacher evaluations, and grades.

a)

Hidden Curriculum

b)

Self-fulfilling prophecy

c)

Tracking

d)

Magnet Schools

21.

A prediction that results in behavior that makes the prediction come true

a)

Prophetic medium

b)

Tracking

c)

Hidden Curriculum

d)

Self-fulfilling prophecy

22.

Views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.

a)

Functionalism

b)

Latent Function

c)

Dysfunction

d)

Manifest Function

23.

This theoretical perspective focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society.

a)

Functionalist

b)

Interactionist

c)

Conflict

d)

Feminist

24.

This theoretical perspective focuses on the forces in society that promote competition and change.

a)

Dysfunction

b)

Functionalism

c)

Conflict

d)

Schooling