Soc 190 Ch 14, 15 Benokaritis

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Education

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Transmitting knowledge, skills, etc. through systematic training

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Current Trends in American Education

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1) Commited to Mass Education
2) Ephasis on Utiltarianism
3) Home Schooling Movement
4) Multi-cultural education

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Manifest VS Latent

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Primary Functions

Secondary Functions

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Manifest Functions

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1) Cultural tramission of values, skills, and knowledge
2) Acticipatory Socialization
3) Maintaining Social Control
4) Promoting Social and Political Integration
5) Selection and allocation
6) Innovation and Social Change
7) Assimilation
8) Role/Status Legitimization
9) Cultivation of flexibility, intellectual curiousity, self-discovery, and self-actualization

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Latent Functions

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1) Child Care
2) Keeps people out of unnecessary competition for jobs
3) Matchmaking
4) Hidden curriculum and discipline
5)Establishing relationships and networks
6)Perpetuation of inequality

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Conflict View

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1) Unequal access to education causes racial and economic inequality
2) Credentialism
3) Bestowal of status
4) Education and occupational opportunities

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Interactionist View (Public VS Private Schools)

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1) Socialization and personal developement
2) Labeling: Self-fulfilling prophecy. Teacher expectancy effect
3) Student-teacher interaction

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Current Problems in American Education

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1) School discipline and corrective measures
2) Academic standards and quality of education
3) High dropout rate
4) Unequal funding
5) Tracking and Self-fulfilling prophecy
6) Violence

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Programs to help equalize education

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Head start and busing

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Busing

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Dr. James Coleman
Busing lead to 'White Flight'

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Educational Issues in our Society

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1) A comparative view
2) Critiques of US education
3) Government support and parent choice
4) Racial inegration
5) Education and equality
6) Effects of education on attitudes and values
7) Mainstreaming and inclusion
8) Schooling people with disabilities

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The Future of Education

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1) Older student population
2) Continuing and adult education
3) Multi-culturalism and increased global awareness
4) Impact of computers and the mass media
5) Pressures to improve the quality of educatoin, Curb grade inflation
6) Depending on schools and colleges to provide solutions to personal, social, political, and economic problems

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Universal Education

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All kids must go to school till a certain age

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Credentialism

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You can do it without having a degree, but many of these people are left behind

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Teacher Expectancy

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if positive, will often create better students and grades

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Social Promotion

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Just want to get rid of the students. Don't keep students behind even if they should be

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White Flight

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White, Middle class families fleeing from districts with busing to those districts without. Leads to gentry

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Gentry/Gentrification/Regentrification

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Affluent, middle class whites moving back to the city to old houses to renovate them. Often in historical areas

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Growth enterprises

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Trains people with disabilities to be successful citizens

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Religion

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social institution involving beliefs and practices based upon a concept of the sacred, as the Adherents/believers understand it, as well as socially shared symbols and rituals

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Animism

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Everything has a spirit/soul

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Monotheism VS Polytheism

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Mono - belief in one god
Poly - belief in many gods

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Ethical religions

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-Abstract Ideals, Transcendent Idealism
-Spirituality

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Civil Religion

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Marxism, Communism
"In God we trust"

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Ethical religions

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-Abstract Ideals, Transcendent Idealism
-Spirituality

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Basic Elements of Religion

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1) Creation of the Sacred
2) Rituals and Prayers
3) Beliefs and Values
4) Organization of Believers
5) Symbols
6) Propitiation
7) Magic and Miracles

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Types of Religious Organizations

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1) Religion (Church)
2) Sect
3) Cult

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T or F:
Denomination and Sects are different types of Religious bodies.

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True.

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Sect

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Stands apparts from the established churches
Example: Mormons

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Cult

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Religious or social organization that is unconventional with regard to the society in general.

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Monotheistic Religions (4)

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Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism

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Ethical Religions (4)

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Buddhism, Taoism/Daoism, Confucianism, and Jainism

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Oldest three religions

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Hinduism, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism

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Youngest religion

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Baha'i

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Three religions with the most followers

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Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism

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Religion with the least followers

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Zoroastrianism

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Religion in a changing society

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1) Electronic Church (Televangelism)
2) Civil Religion ("In God We Trust"
3) Religious Fundamentalism (Moral Majority)
4) Private Religion (Humanistic)

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Functions of Religion

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1) Socialization force, eases social control
2) Strengthens other institutions
3) Helps in welfare
4) Enhances/retards social change
5) Diminishes/promotes conflict
6) Sense of identity/ taking pride in your religion
7) Social Cohesion
8) Meaning/purpose to life
9) Enriches culture

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Dysfunctions of Religion

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1) Wars
2) Justification of persecution
3) Conflict Theory-Marx

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Protestant Ethic and Spririt of Capitalism

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Weber

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T or F:
Religion influences change.

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True

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Symbolic-Interactionist Analysis

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Through rituals, individuals sharpen the different between sacred and profane

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Sacred VS Profane

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"Holy"

Ordinary

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Propitation

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Ways of "pleasing god"

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T or F:
Some religions started out as cults.

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False. All did.

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How many religions began in India?

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4
Buddhism
Islam
Hinduism
Sikhism
(I think these were the four)