Religion and education 111111
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- religion plays a major role in the process of
- ___defined religion is “a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say set apart and forbidden, beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community, called a church, all those who adhere to them”
- ________ is a system of beliefs, values, and practices concerning what a person holds sacred or considers to be spiritually significant
- ________ believed religion reflects the social stratification of society and that it maintains inequality and perpetuates the status quo.
- ________ believes that religion serves several purposes, like providing answers to spiritual mysteries, offering emotional comfort, and creating a place for social interaction and social control.
- ________ believes that one of the most important purposes of religion is the opportunities it creates for social interaction and the formation of groups.
- ________ posits that religion can foster group cohesion and integration.
- ________ are critical of the way many religions promote the idea that believers should be satisfied with existing circumstances because they are divinely ordained.
- Conflict theorists also point out that those in power in a religion are often able to dictate practices, rituals, and beliefs through their interpretation of religious texts or via proclaimed direct communication from the divine.
- ________ focus specifically on gender inequality, and in terms of religion, they assert that, although women are typically the ones to socialize children into a religion, they have traditionally held very few positions of power within religions.
- ________ focus on gender inequality and promote leadership roles for women in religion
- ________ suggests that that our world is socially constructed, so these theorists study the representations and interactions of everyday life.
- Because ________ study one-on-one, everyday interactions between individuals, a scholar using this approach might ask questions focused on the interaction between religious leaders and practitioners, the role of religion in the ordinary components of everyday life, and the ways people express religious values in social interactions.
- ________ describes a religion that believes in the divinity of nonhuman beings, like animals, plants, and objects of the natural world
- Historical sociologists Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud anticipated ________ and claimed that the modernization of society would bring about a decrease in the influence of religion.
- Our education system socializes us to our society. We learn ________ which are reinforced by our teachers, our textbooks, and our classmates.
- Education is ________ through which a society’s children are taught basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms.
- The major factors that affect education systems are ________ that are utilized to support those systems in different nations.
- ________ believe that education equips people to perform different functional roles in society.
- Structural functional theorists suggest that ________, are the intended and visible functions of education. and latent (or secondary) functions, which are the hidden and unintended functions.
- Structural functional theorists suggest that ________ are the hidden and unintended functions.
- ________ view education as a means of widening the gap in social inequality.
- Conflict theorists believe that the public education system
- The________ refers to the type of nonacademic knowledge that students learn through informal learning and cultural transmission.
- Conflict theorists point to ________, a formalized sorting system that places students on advanced versus low achiever groups that perpetuate inequalities.
- To ________, schools play the role of training working-class students to accept and retain their position as lower members of society.
- ________ point to evidence that sexism in education continues to prevent women from achieving a full measure of social equality.
- ________ demonstrate that like many other institutions of society, educational systems are characterized by unequal treatment and opportunity for women.
- ________ study the dynamics of the classroom, the interactions between students and teachers, and how those affect everyday life.
- ________ suggest that labeling has a direct correlation to those who are in power and those who are labeled.
- Today in the United States, students of all races and ethnicities are permitted into schools,
- Today, in the United States, some of the key predictors for student performance include