KOR 352 FA19 101 Quiz for Week7
Question 1 (0.25 points)
Which of the following is not one of my suggestions to do better with weekly quizzes?
Question 1 options:
Enjoy reading
Revisit the readings while takin
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KOR 352 FA19 101 Quiz for Week7
Question 1 (0.25 points)
Which of the following is not one of my suggestions to do better with weekly quizzes?
Question 1 options:
Enjoy reading
Revisit the readings while taking quizzes
Write down main points while reading
Memorize key points
Question 2 (0.25 points)
Match each group with a right description based on Park and Abelmann’ article
Question 2 options:
Entertaining alternative visions and desires to raise a creative child
Pushing her children to study irrespective of their own desires based on her own childhood experience
Justifying her own ambition as well as economic limitations
1. Hun’s Mother
2. Min’s Mother
3. Jinu’s Mother
Question 3 (0.25 points)
Which of the following is not one of the main roles of English in South Korea according to Park and Abelmann?
Question 3 options:
Ideological vehicle
Class marker
Global commodity
Tool to fight nationalism
Question 4 (0.25 points)
According to Haejoang Cho, South Korean children nowadays are trained from a very early age with the values of freedom, so they are able to say “no” to their manager-parents.
Question 4 options:
True
False
Question 5 (0.25 points)
Park and Abelmann argue that English education articulates class and cosmopolitan striving by using the concept “discrepant cosmopolitanism”
Question 5 options:
True
False
Question 6 (0.25 points)
Which of the following is not relevant for the New Generation according to Haejoang Cho?
Question 6 options:
The New Generation wanted to forge a radical alternative to the existing conservative and authoritarian culture through the politics of generational identity
Although the New Generation was enthusiastic and energetic, the financial crisis of 1997 made the new generation become conservative
The New Generation referred to young people who were born after 1970 and entered college in the 1990s
The New Generation valued freedom, self-expression, and self-realization
Question 7 (0.25 points)
Which of the following is not relevant for the Spec Generation according to Haejoang Cho?
Question 7 options:
The Spec Generation was born in the affluent era of the late 1980s
The Spec Generation focuses on credentialization and accumulating specs
The Spec Generation had a fear of sudden economic decline after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
The Spec Generation cannot stand to waste time, so they do not read books on self-development but compete with each other blindly
Question 8 (0.25 points)
Which statement does not describe the history of South Korean modern education according to Park and Abelmann?
Question 8 options:
The increase of middle class population after the IMF crisis in 1997 brought about the popularity of English education
Chun Doo Hwan regime’s July 30 Education Reform prohibited all kinds of private after-school education
During the 2000s, South Koreans experienced the triumph of consumer demand for education and vibrant private after-school educational markets
English education was extended to elementary school during the Kim Young Sam regime
Class and Cosmopolitan Striving: Mothers' Management of English Education in South
Korea
Author(s): So Jin Park and Nancy Abelmann
Source: Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 645-672
Published by: The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4150852
The Spec Generation Who Can’t Say “No”: Overeducated
and Underemployed Youth in Contemporary South Korea
Cho Hae-joang
positions: east asia cultures critique, Volume 23, Number 3, August 2015,
pp. 437-462 (Article)
Published by Duke University Press
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