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SOC Ch16 Ch 18 Practice Chamberlain College Of Nursing Question and answers correctly solved 2024/2025 SOC Ch16 Ch 18 Practice According to the "Globalization by the Numbers" infographic below, which country leads in terms of both proportion of persons enrolled in secondary education and me...

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SOC Ch16 Ch 18 Practice
According to the "Globalization by the Numbers" infographic below, which
country leads in terms of both proportion of persons enrolled in secondary
education and mean years of schooling? - correct answer ✔UK


In 1990, Jeannie Oakes found that students placed in the "low-achieving"
group—mostly African American, Latino, and poor students—as a result
received an education that was ________ their "high-achieving" peers. -
correct answer ✔Poorer than


To the extent that schools help perpetuate social and economic inequalities
across generations, they are part of the process of: - correct answer ✔Social
reproduction


Claude Steele's influential work on differential outcomes for African Americans
in educational settings deals with: - correct answer ✔Stereotype threat


Sharon and Luke, both IT workers, make a point to read to their children every
night before putting them to sleep. Which explanation of the achievement gap
does this example best illustrate? - correct answer ✔Middle- and upper-
middle-class parents tend to invest more heavily in their children's cognitive
development.


The mass media are important because they affect our attitudes and
experiences and: - correct answer ✔Provide access to knowledge


A major legacy of colonialism in the developing world is the high level of: -
correct answer ✔illiteracy

,Some consider the internationalization of education to be problematic
because: - correct answer ✔some foreign students receive financial aid and
scholarships, taking money that might otherwise go to Americans


The sociologists who reexamined the data in Richard J. Herrnstein and
Charles Murray's The Bell Curve reiterated that race and intelligence are best
understood: - correct answer ✔!! From social causes instead of biological


A stereotype threat occurs: - correct answer ✔when people believe they are
being judged not as individuals but as members of a group


Jonathan Kozol's (1991) study of American schools found that: - correct
answer ✔high levels of segregation within schools and great inequalities
between them exist


The *Coleman (1966) studies and the Jencks (1972)* research indicate which
of the following two important points concerning education in our society? -
correct answer ✔Educational and occupational attainment is governed by
family background. On their own, educational reforms can produce only minor
effects on social inequality.


Recall the story of Christine from the beginning of Chapter 16. Her situation
exemplifies the struggles of many students. She has goals and the initiative to
attempt to go to school, but she lacks: - correct answer ✔a support system
that understands the situation that caused her to scale back her expectations


Evidence that social advantage results in higher IQ scores ________ Richard
J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's view on intelligence. - correct answer
✔refutes

, In the book The Bell Curve, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray present
their findings regarding the relationship between IQ and other social factors.
Their conclusions were controversial because the authors: - correct answer
✔proclaimed that black Americans had an inferior intelligence because of
genetic differences between black and white Americans


Which country has the largest number of foreign students attending its
colleges and universities? - correct answer ✔the United States


George, who is African American, gets nervous when taking tests in his
college class because he assumes that his professors will think he cheats on
his tests because he is African American. This is an example of: - correct
answer ✔a stereotype threat


Emotional intelligence is defined as: - correct answer ✔the ability to identify,
assess, and control the emotions of oneself or others


What is one possible reason for the reversal of the gender gap in education? -
correct answer ✔the introduction of gender-neutral learning materials


Within developed countries: - correct answer ✔access to computers is
uneven


The group that benefits from student tracking according to abilities is
composed of: - correct answer ✔high-achieving students because teachers
do not have to spend time working with slow learners


An unintended consequence of school busing is that: - correct answer
✔white families fled from the city into suburban areas, leaving the center cities
to decay

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