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Multiple Choice

This activity contains 13 questions.

All of the following are true concerning schooling in Japan except:

that three-fourths of Japanese students attend "cram schools" to prepare for entrance examinations.that Japanese schooling produces impressive results.that in areas of mathematics and sciences, young Japanese students outperform students in every other high-income nation in the world.that more men and women graduate from high school in Japan than in the United States.

Structural-functional analysis focuses on ways in which schooling supports the operation and stability of society. The functions of education include all of the following except:

cultural innovation.promoting equality.social placement.socialization.

The social-conflict approach to education emphasizes how schooling causes and perpetuates social inequality in the following ways except:

through testing.through social control.through tracking.through socialization.

The ____________ report confirmed that students with mostly minority populations suffer problems ranging from large class size to insufficient libraries and too few science labs.

BrownMarxDurkheimColeman

Community colleges provide all of the following benefits to a community except:

the attraction of international students.that the main emphasis of faculty is research so they can be better teachers.lower tuition.a great importance to minority students.

Which of the following is not one of the ways that large bureaucratic schools undermine education?

a lot of student responsibilityspecializationrigid uniformityrigid expectations

Society affects health in the following basic ways except:

that social inequality affects people's health.that a society's technology affects people's health.that cultural standards of health remain relatively stable over time.that cultural patterns define health.

All of the following are specific behaviors that place people at high risk for HIV infection except:

use of any drug, including alcohol.anal sex.sharing needles.deep mouth kissing.

Central to the ___________________ analysis of health is the concept of the sick role, which releases sick people from routine responsibilities.

symbolic-interaction social-conflictsocio-biologicalstructural-functional

The approach that investigates the social construction of both health and social treatment is:

social-conflict analysis.structural-functional analysis.socio-biological analysis.symbolic-interaction analysis.

___________ analysis focuses on unequal access to health care and criticizes our medical system for its profit orientation.

Social-conflictStructural-functionalSymbolic-interaction Socio-biological

The self-fulfilling prophecy is a reflection of which perspective?

Structural-functionalSocio-biologicalSocial-conflictSymbolic-interaction

A little over __________ percent of all school-aged children are home schooled.

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