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Chapter 14
Education and Religion
Question | Answer |
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consists of the roles and norms that ensure the transmission of knowledge, values, and patterns of behavior from one generation to the next | education |
formal education, which involves instruction by specially trained teachers who follow officially recognized policies | schooling |
the schools' transmission of cultural goals that are not openly acknowledged | hidden curriculum |
the assignment of students to different types of educational programs | tracking |
schools that are funded with public money but are privately operated and run | charter |
the system in which a child's main education is undertaken by parents at home | homeschooling |
a system in which non-English-speaking students are taught in their native languages until they are proficient enough in English to attend regular classes | bilingual education |
anything part of the ordinary world | profane |
anything that is considered a part of the supernatural world | sacred |
a system of roles and norms that is organized around the sacred realm and that binds people together in social groups | religion |
an established pattern of behavior through which a group of believers experiences the sacred | ritual |
a new religion whose beliefs and practices differ markedly from those of the society's major religions | cult |
a relatively small religious organization that typically has split off from a denomination because of differences concerning beliefs | sect |