All of the following are associated with teenage drug use except

Experiencing spurts in weight and height

Research has found that teenage pregnancy can result in.....

A reduced likelihood of finishing high school

In what way do some programs like Head Start help children before they enter public schools?

They provide compensatory education

Which of the following is an advantage of a meritocracy?

People encouraged work hard lead to socal-economic success

What is compensatory education?

Programs to overcome educational deficits

Most social scientists consider inrtelligence to be

Combination of inheritance & environmental effects

Which is an important result of follow-up research conducted on the Head Start program?

Achievement test scores are higher

The result of assimilating several different cultures is:

Blending into one common culture

Why have sociologists identified gender, race, & ethnicity as barriers to true meritocracy?

unfair tests administered to students in poor neighborhoods

What is 1 important factor improves success of African Am. college students regardless of SAT?

Attendance at more prestigious schools

What is the most persuasive agrument against inherited intelligence theory?

Ignores research on impact of environment on intelligence

Minorities and whites coring about the same in school

To have a positive effect on the academic achievement of minority children, school integration

Must be done in an atmosphere of respect & acceptance

Which support the theory that intelligence is inherited?

Social Darwinism & the Bell Curve

Process of achieving racial balance in schools

Multicultural education

Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities

Social stratification refers to

Ranking categories of people in different hierarchy

When does equality in education exist?

Produces same achievement results lower class kids as middle

Compensatory education

Program designed to help disadvantaged children

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1
All of the following are associated with teenage drug use except
Having social and academic adjustment problems
Living in a hostile family situation
Having friends who regularly use drugs
Experiencing spurts in weight and height
2
Research has found that teenage pregnancy can result in.....
A reduced likelihood of finishing high school
Higher than average lifetime earnings
A reduced chance of death during childbirth
Reduced chance of having children with learning difficulties
3
In what way do some programs like Head Start help children before they enter public schools?
These programs are multicultural
These programs include strick tracking methods
They provide compensatory education
These programs are bilingual
4
Which of the following is an advantage of a meritocracy?
Reading, writin & arrithmetic are emphasized
Parents more likely to send their kids to private schools
People encouraged work hard lead to socal-economic success
Students/teachers develop curricula sense of democracy
5
Which of the following distinguishes adolescents as a separate group?
Ethnic and racial diversity
Coming of age rites
Age of onset of puberty
Exclusion from labor force
6
Meritocracy
Process of achieving racial balance in schools
Program designed to help disadvantaged children
System based on competition
Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities
7
What is compensatory education?
Programs parents pay schools to adopt
Programs to overcome educational deficits
Classes with mandatory attendance requirements
Race based education programs
8
A parent that has total control of their child’s life would be identified as:
Promiscuous
Authoritarian
Authoritative
Permissive
9
An action that rewards a particular kind of behavior is a _____________.
Formal Sanction
Ideology
Positive Sanction
Negative Sanction
10
Most social scientists consider inrtelligence to be
A theory used to justify inequality
Combination of inheritance & environmental effects
Solely the result of genetic differences in people
Result of environment on different races
11
Which is an important result of follow-up research conducted on the Head Start program?
Dropout rates are higher
High school graduation rates are lower
Achievement test scores are higher
Self esteem is higher
12
After what event did the concept of adolescence begin to develop in the US?
Civil War
Industrial Revolution
Vietnam War
None of these
13
The enforcing of norms through either internal or external means is called....
internalization
anomie
sanction
social control
14
On what is a meritocracy based?
ethnicity
competition
intelligence
social class
15
The result of assimilating several different cultures is:
Blending into one common culture
Increase in segregation
No change in the cultures
Emergence of several different cultures
16
Norms that have great moral significance attached to them are called....
Mores
Culture
Ethnocentrism
Folkways
17
Why have sociologists identified gender, race, & ethnicity as barriers to true meritocracy?
because the education system favors the wealthy
unfair tests administered to students in poor neighborhoods
Because intelligence not seen as factor in SAT performance
Poorer students do not learn values of rich students
18
What is 1 important factor improves success of African Am. college students regardless of SAT?
Being exposed to middle class values
Attendance at more prestigious schools
Attendance at less rigorous colleges
Being identified as a "striver"
19
Which is an example of a compensatory educational Program?
Head Start
For profit school
Open classroom
Charter school
20
What does research show that social class and race heavily influence
Practice of striving
Practice of compensatory education
Practice of meritocracy
Practice of tracking
21
All the following but which are functions of deviance?
promoting social change
diffusing tension
providing jobs
resocialization
22
What is need to ensure that school desegregation promotes educational equality?
cognitive testing
follow up
tracking
public support
23
What is the most persuasive agrument against inherited intelligence theory?
Dismisses genetics when considering cognitive ability
Ignores the impact of the bell curve
Ignores research on impact of environment on intelligence
Ignores the positive impact of Head Start
24
The part of self that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society
Me
You
I
Them
25
Which of the following places US social classes in order?
Working, upper middle, working poor
Lower middle, upper, upper middle
Upper, working, upper middle
Underclass, working, upper
26
What are groups that reject the major values, norms and beliefs of the larger culture called?
Subculture
Counterculture
Anticulture
Culturalfraud
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educational equality
System based on competition
Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities
Process of achieving racial balance in schools
Minorities and whites coring about the same in school
28
What is the tendency for one to view one’s own culture and group as superior?
Mores
Cultural Relativism
Ethnocentrism
Folkways
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To have a positive effect on the academic achievement of minority children, school integration
all kids in the school live in the same neighborhood
Must be done in an atmosphere of respect & acceptance
Can be instituted only in nontraditional schools
Should be instituted only in inner city schools
30
Which support the theory that intelligence is inherited?
Social Darwinism & Cultural bias
Compensatory education & Social Darwinism
Meritocracy & the Bell Curve
Social Darwinism & the Bell Curve
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School desegregation
Process of achieving racial balance in schools
Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities
Minorities & whites scoring about the same in school
Program designed to help disadvantaged children
32
Multicultural education
Minorities & whites coring about the same in school
System based on compeition
Process of achieving racial balance in schools
Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities
33
A caste system is social stratification
based on individual achievement
based on birth
based on meritocracy
a person’s social position is likely to change over time
34
Social stratification refers to
Inequality of personal talent and individual effort
Ranking categories of people in different hierarchy
The fact that some people work harder than others
Job specialization
35
Which social institution is considered the most important agent of socialization in the US?
mass media
school
family
peers
36
This happens when material culture moves faster than nonmaterial culture.
Diffusion
Ethnocentrism
Cultural lag
Ideology
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When does equality in education exist?
When the SAT includes a strivers score
All students have opportunity for rich jobs after graduation
When students have an opportunity score high on the Sat Test
Produces same achievement results lower class kids as middle
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Compensatory education
System based on competition
Minorities & whites scoring about the same in school
Program designed to help disadvantaged children
Curriculum that also emphasizes contributions of minorities

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