Discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of social assistance, social insurance, and fiscal welfare programs.
What will be an ideal response?
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Working-class kids tend to walk around with a much greater sense of "entitlement" compared to their middle-class counterparts
a. true b. false
____________ can be thought of as a continuous variable defined primarily by education, income levels, and occupational status of the family
a. SES b. Social class c. Culture d. Ethnicity
Identify the manifest and latent functions of education and apply a functionalist perspective to U.S. education. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective.
What will be an ideal response?
In a particular school system, a teacher's aide must report to her teacher, and the teacher must report to his assistant principal, who then must report to her principal, who then must report to the superintendent, who ultimately is responsible to the board of education. This illustrates which characteristic of a bureaucracy?
A. impersonality B. division of labor C. hierarchy of authority D. written rules and regulations