What is a latent function of school?
a. socializing children into a society's norms and values
b. providing the knowledge and skills deemed to be culturally important
c. teaching students to sit quietly for long hours and to respect authority
d. developing a sense of national identity
Answer: c. teaching students to sit quietly for long hours and to respect authority
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a. achievement b. activity c. collectivism d. equal opportunity e. individualism
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which best describes the social construction of sexuality, a concept of the symbolic interactionist theoretical perspective on gender?
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Which concept describes globalization as an illusionary closing of local spaces?
A. juggernaut B. cosmopolitanism C. globalism D. globality