Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Education can serve as a buffer to those with higher educational levels in times of economic recession. Those with the highest educational levels had a much lower unemployment rate during the recession.
2. Education makes a big difference at the individual level, but varies too much person by person to affect the national level of income.
3. Durkheim believed that schools should provide every student with the same education.
4. Conflict theorists inspired by Marx see the educational system as a system of social reproduction of class relations.
5. Critical theorists see education as a part of the culture that is meant to keep people passive and in their place.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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