Sociology of Education Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Sociology of Education explores the ways in which educational institutions, policies, and practices both shape and are shaped by social structures and cultural norms. The course examines issues such as socialization, inequality, stratification, and the roles of race, class, and gender within educational contexts. Students analyze the impact of education on individuals and societies, considering theoretical perspectives alongside empirical research to understand how education can both perpetuate and challenge existing social hierarchies. Critical topics include the hidden curriculum, the relationship between education and social mobility, and the global dimensions of educational systems.
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Readings for Sociology 7th Edition by Garth Massey
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Chapter 1: The Study of Sociology
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Q1) Kelman and Hamilton's analysis invokes the sociological dimensions of:
A) culture shock and linguistic misunderstanding
B) regionality and demographic shift
C) the target and the context of the violence
D) status and stratification
Answer: C
Q2) Which is NOT one of the three versions of sociology Burawoy discusses?
A) professional sociology
B) public sociology
C) policy sociology
D) predictive sociology
Answer: D
Q3) The major distinction or comparison Mills uses throughout his essay is:
A) civilization (modern society) and primitives (premodern society)
B) justice (laws) and fairness (tradition)
C) individuals (biography) and society (history)
D) happiness (emotions) and contentment (understanding)
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Culture and Society
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Q1) A major reason for wearing the veil, according to Read and Bartkowski, was that wearing it:
A) showed a woman's faith and respect for her religion
B) connected a woman to others with whom she shared a friendship or other relationship
C) protected a woman and hid her valuable female qualities from strangers
D) sent a message to men that she was not interested in flirting or having a relationship
E) All of the above are reasons women wore the veil
Answer: E
Q2) The code of the streets applies to whom?
A) police and social workers who try to help solve urban problems
B) a small portion of inner-city youth
C) anyone who wants to be successful
D) women (and a few men) who have lost hope of ever having a family and a home
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Growing up Social
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Q1) The most common feature of the activities described by Montemurro is:
A) beauty
B) self-consciousness
C) motherhood
D) sex
Answer: D
Q2) Allison Pugh's study, "Care and Belonging in the Market," examines:
A) Wall Street and other big business centers where corporate executives are faced with the challenge of either pursuing profits or doing the right thing for the community and society
B) the role of colleges and universities that train people in caring professions such as nursing
C) the transformation of the global economy from the production of goods to the provision of services that require much more interpersonal contact and effective communication
D) the way purchased objects connect (i.e. define the relationship between) people who have, give, or receive them, often at the expense of other kinds of relationships
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Social Interaction and Identity
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Q1) According to Herbert Gans, "symbolic ethnicity" :
A) influences who people fall in love with B) remains hidden from most people, revealed only to intimates such as close friends and family
C) is the most important of all the things that give us a sense of who we are D) has few if any social costs for the individual, but may confer benefits
Q2) Among the young women Bettie studied were several groups or "cliques." The Anglo/whites and the Mexican-American students both belonged to a group identified as:
A) hicks
B) skaters
C) dopers
D) preps
E) rockers
Q3) This essay describes how social historians and sociologists do research using court records and:
A) personal interviews
B) surveys
C) family and other personal written documents
D) newspaper articles
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Chapter 5: Social Inequality and Labor
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Q1) Which nineteenth-century scholar argued that social change is driven by economic power rather than ideas, religion, beliefs, or values?
A) Karl Marx
B) George Herbert Mead
C) Emile Durkheim
D) Friedrich Nietzsche
E) Max Weber
25) Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line WILLIAM E. THOMPSON
Q2) What two approaches does Wilson use in order to understand the problems of inner-city black males?
A) examination of cultural and social structural factors
B) post-industrial theory and feminist theory
C) organizational rationality and political economy
D) historical path-dependency (events could not have unfolded otherwise) and social psychology
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Chapter 6: Social Control and Organizational Power
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Q1) Feagin and Parker compare U.S. experiences of transit system development to:
A) Mexico
B) China
C) Germany
D) Indonesia
Q2) The Disney World described by Shearing and Stenning is, in a word:
A) fun
B) expensive
C) educational
D) controlling
E) yesterday
Q3) One could say that the chain of events described by Glennon began with:
A) a corporate marketing decision about the size and color of french fries
B) the returning World War II veterans' desire for a suburban life
C) the television show "American Graffiti" and the hamburger diner it showcased
D) the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the threat of toxic waste to the environment
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Chapter 7: Social Institutions
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Q1) When Weber examines the modern world he sees:
A) enormous abundance and undreamed-of leisure that justify the hard work of his forefathers
B) a spirit of cooperation and caring that extends wherever capitalism is adopted across the globe
C) people turning away from hard work and faith in the capitalist system
D) people trapped in a capitalist system but no longer holding the values or beliefs that helped create it
41) The Emotional Geography of Work and Family Life (from The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work)
ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD
Q2) Hunt relates her discussion of "normal force" tothe:
A) socialization process of police officers
B) career placement of successful cops
C) deviant subculture of the prison system
D) dialectic of fact and fiction
E) gender dynamics in a public bureaucracy
37) Love, Arranged Marriage, and the Indian Social Structure GIRI RAJ GUPTA
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Chapter 8: Social Change
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Q1) Pardo emphasizes how involvement in Mothers of East Los Angeles: A) contributed to the greater educational success of all the children in the community B) weakened family ties, marital bonds, and traditional values, leading to a higher divorce rate
C) transformed women's personal identities and their ideas about "mothering" D) became a path for the women in the community to procure better jobs and move out of their poor neighborhoods
48) Industry-Driven Activism
EDWARD WALKER
Q2) America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a corporate trade association, mobilized its resources to oppose what public issue, according to Walker?
A) the government providing pharmaceutical drugs to the elderly who are served by Medicare
B) social security, especially for people who are disabled and can no longer work
C) collective bargaining by public employees, including teachers, firefighters, and police
D) federal legislation to reform access to health care
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