We might identify one of the latent functions of public schools as
a. providing low-cost education to the public at large.
b. teaching children skills required to function in society.
c. training children to obey authority and grow up to become obedient workers.
d. teaching children math and science.
Answer: c. training children to obey authority and grow up to become obedient workers.
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a. still a stigmatized status for women in particular. b. increasingly not due to divorce, but to never having been married. c. preferable to being married. d. still rare once a person reaches the age of 30.
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a. those nations dominating the world-economy, having the highest levels of technological development, and concentrating on the production of the most advanced economic goods b. those nations that are the most civilized and morally advanced c. those nations that are highly exploited by others d. the one nation that is more powerful than all others
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Fill in the blank with correct word
Max Weber argued that social standing consists of three dimensions. Which of the following is NOT one of the three?
A) class B) party C) status D) residence