A system of government by and for a small number of elites that does not include representation of ordinary citizens.
What is Authoritarianism?
100
Absolute and constitutional monarchies
What are the branches of monarchies that exist?
100
Propositions and ideas held on the basis of faith
What is beliefs?
100
Educational institutions also help to reproduce the (blank) seen in society.
What is inequality?
100
These are payments from the government to parents whose children attend failing public schools to help parents pay for private school tuition.
What is school vouchers?
200
This is a form of authoritarianism system; usually the leader does not gain power by being elected or through succession but seizes power and becomes an absolutist ruler.
What is a dictatorship?
200
C. Wright Mills
Who is the person who coined the term power elite?
200
The regular practice of religious beliefs, measured by church attendance.
What is religiosity?
200
This describes the values and behaviors that students learn directly over the course of their schooling because of the educational system's structure and teaching methods.
What is the hidden curriculum?
200
This involves the education of children by their parents at home.
What is homeschooling?
300
This is the most extreme and modern version of authoritarianism, where the government seeks to control every aspect, public or private, of citizen's lives.
What is totalitarianism?
300
Kim Jong II of North Korea.
What is an example of totalitarianism?
300
38%.
What is the percent that Americans report to attend services weekly?
300
This contends that because schools are founded by local property taxes, children in poor neighborhoods are trapped in poor, which reinforces inequality.
What is kozol's ethnography?
300
This includes any educational course or program in which th teacher and students do not meet together in the classroom, a situation increasingly available over the internet.
What is distance learning?
400
A political system in which all citizens have the strength to participate.
What is a democracy?
400
One is the authority to impose one's will on others, and the other is the legitimate non-coercive exercise of power.
What is the difference between power and authority, respectively?
400
One refer to a person's public display of commitment to a religious faith while the other refers to a person's inner religious life or personal relationship to the divine.
What is extrinsic and intrinsic religiosity?
400
Education is the process by which a society transmits three things to its members so they can function in society.
What are knowledge, values and expectations?
400
These are public schools run by private entities to give parents greater control over their children's education.
What is a charter school?
500
A government ruled by a king or queen, with succession of rules kept within the family.
What is a monarchy?
500
An example of an opinion leader
Who is Oprah?
500
Those who literally interpret texts and want to "return" to a time of greater religious purity, and those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious.
What is fundamentalists and unchurched?
500
These are the four types of learning systems there are in education.
What are early college high schools, homeschooling, charter schools and distance learning?
500
These institutions blend high school and college into a coherent educational program in which students earn both a high school diploma and two years of college credit towards a bachelor's degree.