Week 13 Quiz

An illustrative high school was set up to teach academic subjects. Because its students are in class all day, many parents can work full shifts. Which kind of function is the parents' full shifts?

Select one.

• A manifest function, because the school is open during the working day on purpose
• A latent function, because it is a consequence the school did not set out to produce
• A hidden-curriculum lesson, because it teaches students to respect the hours their parents work
• A sorting function, because it points parents toward particular kinds of jobs

A first grader learns to line up when the bell rings, raise a hand before speaking, and wait for a teacher's permission to leave the room. None of this is on any syllabus. What does this example show about school as an agent of socialization?

Select one.

• It shows tracking, because students are sorted into separate groups by how well they follow the rules
• It shows a secret syllabus that administrators keep away from parents and students
• It shows the hidden curriculum: unwritten lessons about obedience, punctuality, and hierarchy
• It shows cultural capital, because the child brought these habits from home to school

An illustrative warehouse requires a bachelor's degree for an inventory clerk whose daily tasks a short training course teaches. Which idea names this, and what does that idea claim?

Select one.

• Credentialism, which holds that degrees can stand in for skills they do not measure
• Credentialism, which holds that degrees are worthless and should be ignored in hiring
• Tracking, which holds that workers are sorted into separate groups by their ability
• The correspondence principle, which holds that school routines mirror the workplace

Bowles and Gintis (1976) and Bourdieu offer two accounts of how schools pass advantage from one generation to the next. Which pairing of theorist and idea is accurate?

Select one.

• Bowles and Gintis: cultural capital, the knowledge, tastes, and ways of speaking learned at home
• Bourdieu: the correspondence principle, that school routines mirror the workplace
• Bourdieu: credentialism, that degrees stand in for skills they do not measure
• Bowles and Gintis: the correspondence principle, that school routines mirror the workplace

Which statement about Rosenthal and Jacobson's Pygmalion in the Classroom (1968) matches how this course teaches it?

Select one.

• It proved that a teacher's expectations decide every student's grades
• It is the classic study of a teacher-expectancy effect whose size has been debated
• It showed that test scores cannot change once a student starts school
• It was a survey of teachers' opinions about which of their students would succeed later

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), what did Durkheim study about religion?

Select one.

• Whether any religion's teachings are true, and which religion is most accurate
• How a Protestant ethic of disciplined work fit the spirit of modern capitalism
• What religion does for a group, such as binding people into a moral community
• How religion soothes suffering and so keeps an unequal arrangement in place

Which pairing of a theorist with an idea about religion is accurate?

Select one.

• Marx: religion as the opium of the people; Weber: an elective affinity between an ethic and capitalism
• Weber: religion as the opium of the people; Marx: an elective affinity between an ethic and capitalism
• Durkheim: religion as the opium of the people; Weber: Protestantism as the one-way cause of capitalism
• Marx: religion as social cohesion; Durkheim: Protestantism as the cause of capitalism

An illustrative congregation splits from a large church, asks its members to follow stricter rules, and keeps apart from town life. Select every feature that makes it a sect rather than another type.

Select every option that applies.

• It has broken away from a larger religious body
• It is tied to the state and counts nearly everyone as a member
• It sets itself apart from the wider society with stricter demands
• It is small, and size alone decides whether a group is a sect
• It accepts the wider society and lives alongside other faiths

In an illustrative city, fewer residents attend religious services than a generation ago, yet each year a crowd falls silent as the flag is lowered at a remembrance ceremony that no church organizes. Which reading is accurate?

Select one.

• Falling attendance shows civil religion, and the silent crowd shows secularization
• Both changes show secularization, because religion is disappearing from every part of the city
• Both changes show civil religion, because the city is becoming more religious
• Falling attendance shows secularization, and the silent crowd shows civil religion

In Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study, 16% of U.S. adults were religiously unaffiliated in 2007 and 29% in 2023–24. Which statement reads this change correctly?

Select one.

• The share rose 13 percent, and 29% of U.S. adults now say they do not believe in God
• The share rose 13 percentage points, a change in reported identity, not in belief
• The share rose 29 percentage points, and the change shows what caused people to leave
• The share rose 13 percentage points, which shows that most of the unaffiliated are atheists