EDN 200 M. Martinez

DECISION 12.

Write either Yes or No in the blanks provided:

________ 1. Inequalities which have their source in social organization mean that some, the socially priviledged, have advantages which are denied others in the society.

________ 2. The priviledged often find it comforting as well as expedient to interpret these socially derived inequalities as intrinsic personal qualities.

________ 3. Under the G.I. Bill, returning WWII veterans as a group who attended college graduated at a lower rate than the regular students and achieved lower grades en route to their diplomas.

________ 4. The Coleman Report (1964) concluded that schools do matter a great deal--that different levels of school input do produce very different outcomes in student learning.

________ 5. The Moynihan-Mosteller work reinforced the Coleman Report's suggestion that the achievement problems faced by minority students rested not with the schools but with the students and their cultural backgrounds.

________ 6. In his work, Inequality, Christopher Jencks noted that unequal achievement was caused by deficiencies in the schools, not the child.

________ 7. According to Jencks, family background, schooling, IQ and cognitive skills had little or no predictive value on future economic success.

________ 8. Stepping back from a larger picture of prosperity, the authors of the text attempt to reinforce with statistics what is already common knowledge--that social, economic, and political outcomes generally favor women over men, white people over people of color, and upper- and middle-class people over the urban poor and the working-class.

________ 9. Hacker shows that, for the last thirty years, unemployment rates for African Americans have remained steadily ar two to two-and-a-half times the unemployment rates for whites.

________ 10. Discrimination interacts with cultural practices and traditions the same in different ethnic groups; this is due to the "Americanization" process of assimilation.

________ 11. The great majority of the 17.5 million children living in single-parent households are Black, non-Hispanic.

________ 12. Two-thirds of all African-American youth still attend segregated schools.

________ 13. Globalization of the U.S. economy has changed the job market, enlarging and expanding the middle class by eliminating manufacturing jobs and shifting many of the remaining jobs away from the suburbs to the central city, or overseas to sources of cheap labor.

________ 14. Maternalism refers to a male-dominated social arrangement embedded in traditional family, state, and church structures.

________ 15. There seems to be a "glass ceiling" which prevents women from reaching the top positions in the economic world; most commentators agree that this barrier has been caused by inherent deficiencies in women rather than from the materials of gender discrimination.