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formal education
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a purposeful, planned effort intended to impart specific skills and modes of thought.
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to understand and use a symbol system
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in the most general and basic sense, illiteracy is the inability
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the US
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the first country in the world to embrace the concept of mass education
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so little emphasis on learning at least one other language
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the US is probably the only country in the world that places
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District property taxes
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the largest percentage of funding for public educaion in the US comes from?
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Approximately ___ percent of funding for public education in the US comes form the federal government.
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the self-fulfilling prophecy
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The statement "if people define their situations as real, they are in fact real in their consequences" best describes the dynamics of?
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the social aspects of a religion
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When sociologists study a religion, they investigate?
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political antecedent
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Almost all terrorist activity originates from __________ and is sustained by it as well.
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"great" books such as the Bible, Koran, or Torah
3 essentials: beliefs about sacred and profane rituals a community of worshippers |
Which one of the following is not one of the three essential features of religion as indentified by Durkheim?
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the lives, teachings and writings of great people
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In prophetic religions, the sacred revolves around?
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is sought in places, objects, and actions believed to house a god or spirit
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In sacramental religions the sacred
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the Cold War
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The phrase "under God" was added to he Pledge of Allegiance and the US started to print the phrase "In God We Trust" on its coins during?
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determinism
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the belief that human behavior is controlled by some force, whether genetic, economic, or political is known as?
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human agency
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Individuals, acting alone or with others, to shape, resist, challenge, and sometimes change the social institutions that constrain them are known asa
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ideology
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The most important aspect of a social movement and the key to its success is is
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reactionary
3 types: resistance reform revolutionary |
which one of the following is NOT one of the three types of social movements
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