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Sociology and Education Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When it comes to social movements, sociologists using a conflict perspective might study or focus on what?

a)

What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement.  

b)

Somehting

c)

something

d)

somethiug

2.

Demography is the study of populations. True or False.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Urbanization is the study of the social, political, and economic relationships of citizens.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

According to the work of sociologists, children of divorced parents are (a)   to divorce in their marriage than children of parents who stayed married.

5.

A(n) (a)   is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave his or her country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

6.

English clergyman Thomas Malthus made dire predictions about the earth's ability to sustain its growing population. True or False.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The student non-violent coordinating committee (SNCC), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), The national association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP), and the southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC) are.

a)

Social movement organizations

b)

social reforms

c)

organizations

d)

political organizations

8.

Sociologists tend to define family in terms of.

a)

marriage only

b)

blood, marriage

c)

how a given society sanctions the relationships of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption.  

d)

relationship of people who are connected through blood, marriage, or adoption.

9.

______ occurs when members of the middle and upper classes enter and renovate city areas that have been historically less affluent while the poor urban underclass is forced out due to rising costs.

a)

clear

b)

general

c)

genericide

d)

gentrification

10.

The concentric zone model is an example of human ecology; Human ecology is a functionalist field of study that looks at the relationship between people and their built and natural physical environments. True or False.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Which social perspective emphasizes how religion helps to maintain social inequalities within a society?

(a)  

12.

The 1972 case Mills vs. Board of Education of the District of Columbia set a precedent for ______.

4 lines
13.

Which is not a Christian denomination?

a)

Hindism

b)

Catholicism

14.

Which theoretical perspective focuses on religion from the micro-level? It provides a way to explain a person’s behavior because of their religious beliefs.

a)

symbols

b)

symbolic interactionism

c)

symbol

d)

functionalism

15.

The 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson set the precedent that ______.

a)

racial segregation

b)

racial segregation in schools was allowed.

c)

segregation is not allowed

16.

Which is not a religion?

a)

Catholicism

b)

Hindism

17.

Which theory of education focuses on the labels acquired through the educational process?

a)

functionalism

b)

symbolic

c)

symbolic interactionism

d)

study

18.

Which perspective explains how education keeps the social system or society running smoothly?

a)

contract

b)

something

c)

Functional Perspective.

d)

law

19.

The federal ___ program, which is still active today, was developed to help low-income students make up the preschool deficit revealed in the landmark report titled Equality of Educational Opportunity (also known as the Coleman Report of 1966).

a)
Head Start
b)

Start a home

c)

habitat for humanity

d)

love for everyone

20.

1. When it comes to social movements, sociologists using a conflict perspective might study or focus on what

a)

What motivates inequitably treated people to join a movement.  

b)

qNEICU

c)

ANC JKSC NA

d)

ANSCIJANSC