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The ongoing nature of educational crises in the United States and elsewhere in the world suggests that schools are
 
  a. ineffective.
  b. obsolete systems of learning.
  c. a stage in which a lot of educational crises get played out.
  d. the only hope for change.

Question 2

What did Comte, the founder of modern sociology, write about women?
 
  a. Women are the mental and physical inferiors of men.
  b. Women are inferior to men in the realms of emotion, love, and morality.
  c. Sexual equality would be dangerous to women.
  d. Progress would result from confining women increasingly to the home.
  e. all of the above

Question 3

Which one of the following skills is least valuable in a knowledge economy?
 
  a. social networking
  b. adaptability
  c. encyclopedic-like knowledge
  d. entrepreneurship

Question 4

A patriarchal ideology is:
 
  a. the study of powerful males in past societies.
  b. the belief that there are differences in the social behavior of men and women.
  c. an attempt to find a genetic basis for human behavior.
  d. the belief that men are superior to women and should control all aspects of society.
  e. a genetic program in the human species which influences gender roles.

Question 5

Which one of the following does not qualify as a characteristic of the knowledge economy?
 
  a. accelerated pace
  b. rapid obsolescence
  c. standardization
  d. knowledge intensive

Question 6

Most sociologists agree that:
 
  a. culture is central in shaping gender roles, but only in preliterate societies.
  b. biological factors have some influence, but cultural factors are more important determinants of gender roles.
  c. biological factors are influential in determining gender roles, but only in industrial or complex societies.
  d. biological factors only explain differences between men and women with regard to aggression and disease.
  e. there is no difference between the influences of culture or biology on the development of gender roles, as they are unpredictable.
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