Define alienation according to Karl Marx. Then, identify the worst job that you have had. Was it alienating according to his definition?
What will be an ideal response?
• According to Marx, capitalism perverts our labor, transforming what should be a reason or purpose of our lives and instead directs it against the human self.
• Alienation is the breakdown of and separation from the natural interconnection between people and their productive activities, the products they produce, the fellow workers with whom they produce those things, and what they are potentially capable of becoming.
Students should address each component of alienation:
• That is, did they own what they produced?
• Could they produce how they pleased or was that controlled?
• Did their work separate them from others? Was the work dehumanizing?
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Which of the following features of modern mass educational systems do the authors of the theory of education as nation-building claim to address?
a. the universal, standardized, and highly rationalized character of modern mass educational systems b. the striking similarities between the educational systems of otherwise very different countries c. the orientation of modern educational systems toward the individual as the primary social unit d. all of these
Identify three manifest functions of the education institution
What will be an ideal response?
A comparison of the remarriage rates for men and women reveals that
a. women are the most likely to remarry. b. men are the most likely to remarry. c. sex has no effect on the likelihood of remarriage.
A substitute teacher is an example of a worker who is marginal because of
a. job contract. b. irregularity. c. illegal job content. d. management practices. e. secondary labor markets.