SOCIOLOGY EXAM 5 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TESTED
ANSWERS
◉ Human Capital
Answer: knowledge and skills invested in people which make
them more economically productive, thereby yielding an overall
net benefit to the society
--Your abilities, talents, and experiences that make you valuable in
work or society.
◉ Hidden Curriculum
Answer: Taught by the school, not by the teacher. Students are
picking up an approach to living and attitude to learning
◉ Why are children being taught to conform in schools?
Answer: The structure of school oppresses creativity, so in school
young people aren't learning to be individual thinkers but rather
cookie cutter conformists
◉ Functionalist theory of higher education
Answer: -Jobs require greater skills because of technological
change.
-The institution of higher education provides society with skilled
workers.
,-Higher education has become larger, and people spend more
years in school.
◉ Bowles and Gintis
Answer: observed schooling in capitalist america
◉ "It is the prerogatives of capital and the imperatives of profit,
not human capacities and technical realities, which render US
schooling what it is." Meaning??
Answer: Schools aren't about increasing knowledge(opposes
functionalist theory)
Schools might be making students dumber so that they may be
more compliant in the capitalist system
◉ Correspondence principle
Answer: Social institutions in capitalist economy will have same
characteristics of capitalist economy and capitalism
◉ When bowles and gintis looked in classrooms they saw world of
work in schooling
Answer: -teacher/principle is hierarchy
-kids in school are doing work/hw which is labor
-students experience alienation bc they are going to school only
for extrinsic rewards like grades(rewards like grades alienate kids
from gaining knowledge, they only care about getting grade)
, -competition in grading system that puts students against each
other
◉ Students are made into what
Answer: compliment workers
◉ Credential Inflation
Answer: When value of something is inflated it is worth less
Same thing is happening with credentials- with college degrees;
their value has become inflated
◉ Political theory
Answer: Max weber laid foundation; A body of work aimed at
developing knowledge about politics and political systems.
◉ Politics is about...
Answer: a group's ability to get what it wants, and the exercise of
power
◉ Power
Answer: the ability to get one's own way and make other people
go along with that even if they don't like it
◉ Power can be exercised by...
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TESTED
ANSWERS
◉ Human Capital
Answer: knowledge and skills invested in people which make
them more economically productive, thereby yielding an overall
net benefit to the society
--Your abilities, talents, and experiences that make you valuable in
work or society.
◉ Hidden Curriculum
Answer: Taught by the school, not by the teacher. Students are
picking up an approach to living and attitude to learning
◉ Why are children being taught to conform in schools?
Answer: The structure of school oppresses creativity, so in school
young people aren't learning to be individual thinkers but rather
cookie cutter conformists
◉ Functionalist theory of higher education
Answer: -Jobs require greater skills because of technological
change.
-The institution of higher education provides society with skilled
workers.
,-Higher education has become larger, and people spend more
years in school.
◉ Bowles and Gintis
Answer: observed schooling in capitalist america
◉ "It is the prerogatives of capital and the imperatives of profit,
not human capacities and technical realities, which render US
schooling what it is." Meaning??
Answer: Schools aren't about increasing knowledge(opposes
functionalist theory)
Schools might be making students dumber so that they may be
more compliant in the capitalist system
◉ Correspondence principle
Answer: Social institutions in capitalist economy will have same
characteristics of capitalist economy and capitalism
◉ When bowles and gintis looked in classrooms they saw world of
work in schooling
Answer: -teacher/principle is hierarchy
-kids in school are doing work/hw which is labor
-students experience alienation bc they are going to school only
for extrinsic rewards like grades(rewards like grades alienate kids
from gaining knowledge, they only care about getting grade)
, -competition in grading system that puts students against each
other
◉ Students are made into what
Answer: compliment workers
◉ Credential Inflation
Answer: When value of something is inflated it is worth less
Same thing is happening with credentials- with college degrees;
their value has become inflated
◉ Political theory
Answer: Max weber laid foundation; A body of work aimed at
developing knowledge about politics and political systems.
◉ Politics is about...
Answer: a group's ability to get what it wants, and the exercise of
power
◉ Power
Answer: the ability to get one's own way and make other people
go along with that even if they don't like it
◉ Power can be exercised by...
