A Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri Invented

question 87

Multiple Choice

A professor of sociology at the University of Missouri invented a piece of software to grade students' papers that saves him 200 hours of grading every year. Why is using a computer program to grade a particularly capitalist technique?

• A) It focuses on the analysis of knowledge.
• B) It encourages efficiency through technological innovation.
• C) It treats everyone equally.
• D) It increases the fairness of the grading system.
• E) It allows greater state control of how we teach students and the kind of workers that schools produce.

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