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Title: In a study of education in the United States, __________ would look at the role the schools play in ...
Post by: Stevend95 on Mar 20, 2018
In a study of education in the United States, __________ would look at the role the schools play in maintaining the social system as a whole how education provides the young with skills they need later in life and how education transmits cultural values from one generation to the next.
 
  a. symbolic interactionists
 b. postmodern theorists
 c. functionalists
 d. conflict theorists

Question 2

George Herbert Mead explored how individual personalities are developed from social experience and concluded that we would not have an identity, a self, without communication with other people.
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 3

According to the __________ perspective, the classical theories have been unsuccessful in explaining social life in contemporary societies that are characterized by postindustrialization, consumerism, and global communications.
 
  a. functionalist
 b. conflict
 c. symbolic interactionist
 d. postmodern

Question 4

Symbols are instrumental in helping people derive meanings from social situations. In social encounters, each person's interpretation or definition of a given situation becomes a subjective reality from that person's viewpoint.
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 5

Social-class pressures may affect rates of suicide among young people. This view is consistent with the __________ perspective.
 
  a. conflict theory
 b. postmodern
 c. functionalist
 d. symbolic interactionist

Question 6

The conflict and functionalist perspectives focus primarily on microlevel (focusing on small groups) analysis, whereas the symbolic interactionist approaches are based on a macrolevel (examining whole societies, large-scale social structures, and social systems) analysis.
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 7

Breanna believes that Jarrod is upset with her because she interprets his tone of voice as angry. Although Jarrod states that he is not angry, from a symbolic interactionist perspective it is Breanna's __________ of the situation that is most real or believable to her.
 
  a. prior knowledge
 b. interpretation
 c. trust
 d. imagination


Title: In a study of education in the United States, __________ would look at the role the schools play in ...
Post by: Jango4445 on Mar 20, 2018
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Title: In a study of education in the United States, __________ would look at the role the schools play in ...
Post by: Stevend95 on Mar 20, 2018
I hope they're paying you for this because all of them were correct :lol:


Title: In a study of education in the United States, __________ would look at the role the schools play in ...
Post by: Jango4445 on Mar 20, 2018
not really, just a volunteer... and you're welcome ;)