What is a meritocracy, and why is the educational system an important component of a meritocratic society? In what ways is the U.S. education system meritocratic, and in what ways is it not meritocratic?
What will be an ideal response?
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Functionalists believe that the arrangement of gender roles with which they were familiar had arisen because ________
a. relationship between females and males has been one of unequal power b. marital partners needed a division of labor c. females bear children and are natural care givers d. biological differences made the males superior to females
Democratic nations are more likely to engage in war than totalitarian nations
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
_________ means anticipated or intended
a. Latent b. Manifest c. Function d. Dysfunction
According to George Herbert Mead's stages of the self, the preparatory stage occurs when
A. children become able to pretend to be other people. B. we observe ourselves through the looking-glass self. C. children grasp not only their own social positions, but also those of others around them. D. children imitate the people around them, particularly family members.