intro to sociology

siplomas determine jobs eligibilty

• -dipomas serve as sorting devices
• -credential societies are usually industrialized societies

• learn a trade in 2 years
• -affordable
• -not ready for a 4 year college
• -helps esl students learn english.

includes students in specaial ed into regualr ed classes.

I.E.P

• -works as a team
• -discourage competition amoong inviduals
• -children study same thing everyday same textbooks.

• before
• -capitaliziam is evil
• -college was free
• -oral exam

• after
• -private schoola nd religous school were aloud.
• -no$ for teachers
• -think for themselves

• -school is not emphasized
• -most children work on land and take care of families.
• -most students do not go beyond 2nd grade.

• -indvidulization is encourged
• -schools have sports and extracrutual activies
• -take S.A.Ts to get into college

determing which people will take enter what occupation

sorting students into differnt groups. (cats,dogs,rabits)

free breakfast, discouted lunches, after care, extracturclar, concling, sex edu and birth control given at school.

more then 1 million children are being homeschooled today.

90% by the mother

scored higher from one on one attenion

asking question to students they have no knowage on.

differnt groups and differnt levels

children have lower I.Q scores

dumbing down the S.A.Ts from 1996-1997 because of low scores

teacher graded twice as much Cs as As.

passing students from one grade to the next even though they have not mastered it(fail twice move on)

high school graduates haveing difficalty with ready and writing

a system of belives and practece whice unite in a church

• -beliefs-some things are sacred
• -practices-centering on things considered sacred
• -moral community resulting-a groups belifs and practices

• -answering question about the ultimate meaning of life.
• -social solidarity
• -emotional comfort
• -provideds guidelines for everyday life
• - there are also dysfunction of religions including: war and terrorism and religious persecution.

are less liky to abuse drugs

cross for christians

star for jewsih

moon for muslusms

• -begains with charismatic leader
• -most popular regligions started this way
• -religious fervor is high
• -most cults fail
• -if survive often form:sects

• -loosely organized and fairly small
• -emphasize personal salvation
• -some sects remain sects and never turn into churches (Amish)

• -highly bureaucratized
• -national and international
• -reationships with god less intense

• -state religions
• -part of cultural indenification

• -the hour between 10 and 11 am on sundays has been referred to as the most segregated hour in the u.s
• -religious participation goes up as ones ages.
• -94% of american beieve that there is a god.

• -religion thrives
• -people will always ponder the purpose of life.
• -science cannot tell us about
• *the existence of god
• *the purpose of life
• *an after life
• *morality