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11.1 An Overview of Education in the United States
Details: Education is the social institution through which a society teaches its members the skills, knowledge, norms, and values they need to learn to become good, productive members of their society. As this definition makes clear, education is an important part of socialization. Education is both formal and informal. Formal education is often referred to as schooling, and as this term implies, it
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16.1 A Brief History of Education in the United States
Details: Education is the social institution through which a society teaches its members the skills, knowledge, norms, and values they need to learn to become good, productive members of their society. As this definition makes clear, education is an important part of socialization. Education is both formal and informal. Formal education is often referred to as schooling, and as this term implies, it
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11.2 Sociological Perspectives on Education – Social Problems
Details: The Functions of Education. Functional theory stresses the functions that education serves in fulfilling a society’s various needs. Perhaps the most important function of education is socialization.If children are to learn the norms, values, and skills they need to function in society, then education is a primary vehicle for such learning.
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Chapter 11: Schools and Education – Social Problems
Details: Education is one of our most important social institutions. Youngsters and adolescents spend most of their weekday waking hours in school, doing homework, or participating in extracurricular activities, and many then go on to college. People everywhere care deeply about what happens in our nation’s schools, and issues about the schools ignite
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16.2 Sociological Perspectives on Education – Sociology
Details: The Functions of Education. Functional theory stresses the functions that education serves in fulfilling a society’s various needs. Perhaps the most important function of education is socialization.If children need to learn the norms, values, and skills they need to function in society, then education is a primary vehicle for such learning.
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11.5 Improving Schools and Education – Social Problems
Details: This concluding section focuses mostly on elementary and secondary education, given its critical importance for young people’s development. As we consider how to improve the nation’s schools, and especially how to improve outcomes for low-income students and students of color, we need to keep in mind an important consideration: Good schooling can make an important difference for these
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8.1 Family Motivation: Value of Work and Education
Details: Family Motivation: Value of Work and Education. Consistent with a family resilience framework (Walsh, 2006), the value of family provides a powerful motivation among immigrants to work hard and gain education. A sense of family identity can provide a sense of belonging and social identity (Fuligni, 2011). Furthermore, family identity promotes
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Chapter 16: Education – Sociology
Details: Education is one of our most important social institutions. Youngsters and adolescents spend most of their weekday waking hours in school, doing homework, or participating in extracurricular activities, and many then go on to college. People everywhere care deeply about what happens in our nation’s schools, and issues about the schools ignite
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16.3 Education in the United States – Sociology
Details: Education in the United States is a massive social institution involving millions of people and billions of dollars. About 75 million people, almost one-fourth of the U.S. population, attend school at all levels. This number includes 40 million in grades pre-K through 8, 16 million in high school, and 19 million in college (including graduate
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Chapter 1: You and Your College Experience
Details: 1. I understand all the benefits of a college education for my future life. 2. I have clear-cut career interests and have already planned my college program to prepare me best for my future work. 3. I am aware of how my previous educational background has prepared me for college work.
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Developing Leaders in Place: Graduate Leadership Education
Details: Graduate education should increase students’ ability to dive deeper into these challenging meta-themes. Experiences that promote metacognition and create the conditions in which learners can progress to increasingly higher developmental stages of sense-making will allow them to view the world and their place in it in more complex and
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1.1 Who Are You, Really
Details: College is a unique experience for all students—whether you just graduated from high school or are returning to education after years of working. You are transitioning from one form of education to another. Some students have difficulty because of the differences between college and high school.
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4.3 Agents of Socialization – Sociology
Details: Chapter 16: Education. 16.1 A Brief History of Education in the United States; 16.2 Sociological Perspectives on Education; 16.3 Education in the United States; 16.4 Issues and Problems in Education; 16.5 End-of-Chapter Material; Chapter 17: Religion. 17.1 Religion as a Social Institution; 17.2 Religion in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
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10.1 Overview of the Family – Social Problems
Details: College education obviously can cost tens of thousands of dollars beyond that. Robin W. Simon (2008) argues that American parents’ stress would be reduced if the government provided better and more affordable day care and after-school options, flexible work …
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8.1 Foundations of Culture and Identity – Communication in
Details: The socializing institutions we discussed earlier (family, peers, media, religion, and education) often make oppression seem normal and natural. For example, I have had students who struggle to see that they are in this stage say things like “I know that racism exists, but my parents taught me to be a good person and see everyone as equal.”
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11.6 End-of-Chapter Material – Social Problems
Details: Education is both formal and informal. Formal education occurs in schools under specially trained teachers, while informal education takes place primarily in the home, with parents as instructors. In the early nineteenth century in the United States, a movement for free, compulsory education began.
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4.1 The Importance of Socialization – Sociology
Details: Chapter 16: Education. 16.1 A Brief History of Education in the United States; 16.2 Sociological Perspectives on Education; 16.3 Education in the United States; 16.4 Issues and Problems in Education; 16.5 End-of-Chapter Material; Chapter 17: Religion. 17.1 Religion as a Social Institution; 17.2 Religion in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Chapter 7: Interacting with Instructors and Classes
Details: The real essence of a college education is not just absorption of knowledge and information but learning a way of thinking that involves actively responding to the ideas of others. Employers seek graduates who have learned how to think critically about situations and ideas, to solve new problems, and to apply traditional knowledge in new
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14.1 Financial Planning – Exploring Business
Details: Education loans, which must be repaid, are available to students from various sources, including the federal government, states, and academic institutions. While recent problems in the credit markets have made college loans more difficult to obtain, most students are able to …
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4.1 The Recruitment Process – Human Resource Management
Details: The recruitment process is an important part of human resource management (HRM). It isn’t done without proper strategic planning. Recruitment is defined as a process that provides the organization with a pool of qualified job candidates from which to choose. Before companies recruit, they must implement proper staffing plans and forecasting to determine how many people they will need.
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16.5 End-of-Chapter Material – Sociology
Details: Education is both formal and informal. Formal education occurs in schools under specially trained teachers, while informal education takes place primarily in the home, with parents as instructors. For much of human history, education was informal, especially before the beginning of writing and numbers.
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2.4 The Consequences of Poverty – Social Problems
Details: Education. Poor children typically go to rundown schools with inadequate facilities where they receive inadequate schooling. They are much less likely than wealthier children to graduate from high school or to go to college. Their lack of education in turn restricts them and their own children to poverty, once again helping to ensure a vicious
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7.3 Social Patterning of Drug Use – Social Problems
Details: Education. Education differences in drug use depend on the type of drug (see Figure 7.5 “Education and Prevalence of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Drug Use, Ages 26 and Older, 2010 (Percentage Using in Past Month)”). For alcohol, higher levels of education are …
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8.4 Chapter Activities – College Success
Details: Look for abstract or general words in what you just wrote. (For example, if you wrote, “I want a better job,” the key general word is “better.” If you wrote, “I need a good education for my future,” the general words are “good” and “education.” Circle the general word(s) in what you wrote.
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7.2 Human Geography of Subsaharan Africa – World Regional
Details: The lack of education, HIV testing, and medical services hinder progress toward stopping this deadly disease. Prevention is an ideal that has not materialized yet. Many people do not want to be tested out of fear of rejection by their families and friends if they are infected. AIDS will surely kill millions more in Africa before a solution is
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1.8 Media Literacy – Understanding Media and Culture
Details: Education, life experience, and a host of other factors make each person interpret constructed media in different ways; there is no correct way to interpret a media message. But on the whole, better media literacy skills help us function better in our media-rich environment, enabling us to be better democratic citizens, smarter shoppers, and
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15.1 The Role of Government in a Market Economy
Details: An important debate in the provision of public education revolves around the question of whether education should be produced by the government, as is the case with traditional public schools, or purchased by the government, as is done in charter schools. External Costs and Benefits.
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16.3 Major Domestic Policies – American Government and
Details: The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) allotted funds for developing remedial programs, hiring teachers and aides, and purchasing supplies and equipment. The Head Start Program, also established in 1965, provided low-income children with preschool education. The Department of Education was created in 1979.
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17.3 Sociological Perspectives on Religion – Sociology
Details: Sociological perspectives on religion aim to understand the functions religion serves, the inequality and other problems it can reinforce and perpetuate, and the role it plays in our daily lives (Emerson, Monahan, & Mirola, 2011). Table 17.1 “Theory Snapshot” summarizes what these perspectives say. Religion serves several functions for society.
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15.10 Persuasive Essay – Writing for Success
Details: Like education, health care should be considered a fundamental right of all US citizens, not simply a privilege for the upper and middle classes. One of the most common arguments against providing universal health care coverage (UHC) is that it will cost too much money. In other words, UHC would raise taxes too much.
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7.6 Addressing the Drug Problem and Reducing Drug Use
Details: According to Kleiman et al. (2011, p. 201), “the continued dominance in school-based drug education of DARE—a program that has never been shown to actually reduce drug use—is a scandal.” They instead recommend school-based programs that help children develop self-control and prosocial behavior, as these programs have also been shown to
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11.2 Feminism and Sexism – Sociology
Details: Figure 11.6 Education and Acceptance of Traditional Gender Roles in the Family. Percentage agreeing that “it is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.”
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15.2 Narrative Essay – Writing for Success
Details: My College Education. The first class I went to in college was philosophy, and it changed my life forever. Our first assignment was to write a short response paper to the Albert Camus essay “The Myth of Sisyphus.” I was extremely nervous about the assignment as well as college.
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1.1 Why Is Public Speaking Important
Details: Advocating for music education in your local school district, convincing clients to purchase your company’s products, or inspiring high school students to attend college all involve influencing other people through public speaking. For some people, such as elected officials, giving persuasive speeches is a crucial part of attaining and
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9.5 Résumé – Business Communication for Success
Details: Education. You need to list your education in reverse chronological order, with your most recent degree first. List the school, degree, and grade point average (GPA). If there is a difference between the GPA in your major courses and your overall GPA, you may want to list them separately to demonstrate your success in your chosen field.
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10.6 Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century – Sociology
Details: Affirmative action refers to the preferential treatment of minorities and women in employment and education. Affirmative action programs were begun in the 1960s to provide African Americans and then other people of color and women access to jobs and education to make up for past discrimination. President John F. Kennedy was the first known
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3.7 Reducing Racial and Ethnic Inequality – Social Problems
Details: Affirmative Action. Affirmative action refers to special consideration for minorities and women in employment and education to compensate for the discrimination and lack of opportunities they experience in the larger society. Affirmative action programs were begun in the 1960s to provide African Americans and, later, other people of color and women access to jobs and education to make up for
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Planning, Developing, and Implementing Nursing Telehealth
Details: Nursing Education for the 21st Century. The School of Nursing received funding via the Provost’s initiative Enhancement of Academic Programs Using Digital Technology. One of the goals was to develop a new high-fidelity simulation opportunity, including the development of the necessary supporting content for the curriculum.
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2.3 Research Design in Sociology – Sociology
Details: CRISP’s project aims to use these data to help achieve the following goals, as listed on its Web site: (a) safeguard the healthy development of infants, (b) strengthen early childhood education, (c) improve schools and local communities, (d) reduce socioeconomic segregation and the effects of poverty, and (e) create a family enabling society
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