In my Sociology 101 class, we post weekly responses to questions posed to us. Once the question was, "Using the structural functional approach, describe the educational system in the United States." Structural functional basically means that the way something is structured serves some function. One person put that the educational system is divided into three parts: elementary, junior high, and high school, just as the government is divided into three parts: judicial, executive and legislative. That was the whole gist of their response too. That it was divided into three parts, which is not only not the point of the question, but it also denies the existence of higher education.
A couple other students started to use the word "socialist" to mean someone who is very social. As in, "With all of your many friends and acquaintances, I can see that you are quite the socialist."
