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100

__________ is a system in which rewards are based on relative performance.

Competition

100

Education that is provided and regulated by society is known as __________ schooling.

Formal

100

The ability to control the behavior of others is known as __________.

Power

100

__________ is an economic system based on private ownership of property and the pursuit of profit.

Capitalism

100

A ___________ is an organization owned by shareholders, who have limited liability and limited control.

Corporation

200

Educational ___________ is a condition in which schooling produces the same results for lower-class and minority children as it does for other children.

Equality

200

The placement of students in programs according to academic ability levels is known as __________.

Tracking

200

Control through force is known as _________.

Coercion

200

Companies that have control over the production or distribution of a product or service are known as ______________.

Monopolies

200

Firms based in highly industrialized societies with operating facilities throughout the world are known as ____________.

Multinationals

300

An action that produces an intended and recognized result is known as a __________ function.

Manifest

300

An action that produces and unintended and unrecognized result is known as a _________ function.

Latent

300

Power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it is known as __________.

Authority

300

An economic system founded on the belief that the means of production should be controlled by the people as a whole is known as _____________.

Socialism

300

Shareholders are not expected to pay the debts that a corporation owes.  This is an example of limited ___________.

Liability

400

A society in which social status is based on ability and achievement is known as a __________.

Meritocracy

400

The capacity for thinking abstractly (based on general ideas) is known as your ____________ ability.

Cognitive

400

"__________" authority arises from the personality of the individual.

Charismatic

400

Which U.S. President founded the Department of Labor?

William Howard Taft

400

The term __________ effect describes the situation in which some students perform better than others simply because they are expected to do so.

Pygmalion

500

The unfair measurement of the cognitive abilities of people in some social categories is known as "Cultural __________."

Bias

500

Public schools that are operated like private schools by public school teachers and administrators are known as ___________ schools.

Charter

500

"________" authority is when the legitimacy of a leader is rooted in custom.

Traditional

500

__________ are combinations of companies that control the production or distribution of a product or service.

Oligopolies

500

__________ are networks of unrelated businesses operating under one corporate umbrella.

Conglomerates