EDN 200 DECISION 1. Write either Yes or No in the blanks provided:

_____1. The tools of inquiry consist of six analytic terms: public theory, schooling, training, education, political economy, and ideology.

_____2. The public schools are perhaps the least familiar but the most well understood institution in our society.

_____3. A theory is an explanation of phenomena that attempts to answer the questions "how" and "why".

_____4. Schooling refers to the totality of experiences that occur outside of the institution called school, not all of which are educational; i.e., they may be "extracurricular".

_____5. Training may be described as a set of experiences provided to some organism (human or not) in an attempt to render its responses predictable according to the goals of the trainer.

_____6. Training builds on the successes and failures of ancestors, whereas education tends to reproduce the response(s) of the trainer.

_____7. To study the political economy of a particular society is to examine how that society is disorganized--to examine the structures, processes, and physical and mental resources which give it its character and distinctiveness.

_____8. It may be useless to think of an ideology as an interpretive "lens" that a society looks through in order to organize its experiences.

_____9. It is safe to assume that a society's dominant economic class can explain and justify theprevailing social arrangements according to the dominant ideology, but such explanations may not accurately reflect the views of people from less privileged economic classes.

_____10. The beliefs and values of any culture should be critically examined for their internal consistency and for their consequences in practice.

_____11. The hierarchial nature of feudal political economy and ideology was not reflected in the hierarchy of education.

_____12. A look into Athenian Political Economy reveals that the metics all had a common ancestry from the old Athenian aristocracy and that all metics were male, adult, and born in Athens.

_____13. In Athens, the Council of Six Hundred was the legislative council; membership was decided by "the luck of the draw" in which candidates were chosen by lottery rather than by election.

_____14. The term "oligarchy" refers to government by the privileged few.

_____15. Among the overwhelming majority of Athenians systematically excluded from citizenship were women, slaves, children, and metics.

_____16. As was later true in the United States, the Greeks justified the institution of slavery on racist grounds; Non-Greeks were judged fit only to be slaves on the view that the Greeks were a separate and superior race of people.

_____17. Athenians believed that the road to virtue as to freedom was paved with Spartan passion and a life of leisure as exemplified by Bacchus.

_____18. For the Nerds from the wealthy classes in Athens, "Nothing in excess" served as a guide for daily living; Virtue was to be found in moderation in all things.

_____19. The curriculum in schools in Athens consisted of gymnastics, literature, and music.