Terms
Terms 2.0
Random Important Facts
100
Implicit agreement between Americans to give its citizens a chance at obtaining a free public education.
What is the social contract?
100
A set of arrangements, usually embodied in institutions but going beyond any particular organization, that shapes our behavior and leads us to do certain things, and not do other things.
What is social structure?
100
This college was the first college in the United States and was founded in what year.
What is Harvard 1636?
200
Award granted to 6-year faculty member that protects said faculty member from being fired for expressing popular views.
What is tenure?
200
Wal-Marted
What are low wages, part-time workers, low benefits and subcontractors?
200
The United States currently resides in which position among the world's countries in percentage of college graduates in the general population?
What is tenth?
300
Political view that “the free market” is the best way to manage social arrangements and that gov. should be reduced in size.
What is neo-liberal?
300
Treats students as consumers and the university as a market.
What is the university as a business?
300
This model of education allows for the wealthy to pay full fair for college and the underprivileged to receive financial aid.
What is high tuition-high aid model?
400
A type of pseudo-market used to force competition between departments; rating system used to assess quality, usually with rewards.
What is benchmarking?
400
Treats students as consumers and the university as a market.
What is the university as a business?
400
Having this doubles or triples income, improves the quality of life, increases likelihood to vote, decreases likeliness to smoke and commit crimes.
What is a college degree?
500
Allows us to see the relationship between “personal trouble” and “public issues of social structure”. It is central to understanding the diversity of experience of people, depending on their race, gender, class, and sexuality.
What is the sociological imagination?
500
Besides accepting the view that education is the basis for a healthy society, what is a negative proposition? WHY?
What is rejecting the opinion that we have no money?
500
Different backgrounds, unequal opportunities, nation isn’t committed to higher education.
What are the three obstacles to higher education?
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