Many are concerned about the place of the United States within the global economy and believe that if we do not reform our education system, we will not be able to compete with other societies. Drawing on the discussion of education from your textbook, describe how students in the United States compare with students in other nations with respect to math and science skills. What may account for these differences?
What will be an ideal response?
Children from the United States perform lower than children from other nations in math and science skills. One potential explanation might include the idea that children from other cultures, such as China, are heavily socialized to value education from an early age.
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a. The more power a group has, the more likely they are to be successful at defining deviance. b. Lower-class people engage in more blatant forms of deviance. c. The more numbers a group has, the more likely they are to be successful at defining deviance. d. Very few upper-class people engage in deviant behavior.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In Émile Durkheim's view,
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