SOC Jon Witt chapter 8

The impact that a teacher’s expectations about a student’s performance may have on the student’s actual achievements

a personal set of institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs and practices

Religion’s diminishing influence in the public sphere, especially in politics and the economy

A social institution dedicated to the formal process of transmitting culture from teachers to students

An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field

prayer, communions, services are examples of what?

The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria

Schools’ reproduction of the existing class structure through socializing students 2 embrace their social class position

A large, organized religion that is not officially linked to the state or government

Lent and Ramadan are examples of what?