According to a functionalist perspective, a ______ function of the public education system is to promote social cohesion by ensuring that shared cultural ideals are passed from one generation to the next while a ______ function is to reduce delinquency by keeping young people off the streets and supervised during the hours when their parents are working and unable to monitor their activities.
A. manifest; latent
B. latent; manifest
C. static; dynamic
D. dynamic; static
Answer: A
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a. technological breakthroughs will probably head off any serious problem generated by resource depletion b. population growth is in many instances beneficial rather than harmful c. negativists like Heilbroner, although probably correct, do society damage because they encourage fatalism d. two of the above
Jeremy knows very little about his family's
heritage, and as a fourth generation Irish-American, most people simply assume he is a white American. It is safe to say that Jeremy's family has been __________. A) acculturated B) naturalized C) culturally transmitted D) culturally diffused
Research exploring gender differences in self-disclosure indicates that
(a) women are much higher disclosers than men overall (b) men are higher disclosers than women overall (b) men disclose more highly than women to close friends (c) women and men differ only slightly in amount of disclosure
Why do we police gender more strictly in some situations than in others? Do you think that other identities, like race or class, might affect how someone's gender is determined?
What will be an ideal response?