Which of the following was not a major objective of early American schools?
a. the creation of some minimal "democracy of knowledge"
b. simple skill training to prepare children for factory work
c. keeping children out of the labor market
d. the development of intellectual skills such as critical and abstract thinking
e. the teaching of democratic values and marketable skills
D
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The secularization of religion refers to
a. as education increases, so does income. b. as income increases, status symbols become more important. c. the tendency to keep religion out of society. d. the decline in the importance of religion as education increases.
Durkheim observed that whenever a group of people has a strong conviction
a. religion doesn't matter. b. that conviction always takes on a religious character. c. they fight among themselves. d. they work to make the world a better place.
A correlation coefficient expresses in a single number
a. the strength of a correlation. b. the direction of a correlation. c. both the strength and direction of a correlation. d. None of the above
The majority of jobs in the United States are in the __________ sector
a. primary b. secondary c. tertiary d. quaternary