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Community Colleges and the American Social Order

Community Colleges and the American Social Order. Stephen Brint & Jerome Karabel. American Education and the Management of Ambition. Does ambition really need to be managed? Who actually does this management? Who should be doing it?

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Community Colleges and the American Social Order

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  1. Community Colleges and the American Social Order Stephen Brint & Jerome Karabel

  2. American Education and the Management of Ambition • Does ambition really need to be managed? • Who actually does this management? Who should be doing it? • How is this accomplished? What do you see as a management of ambition in society, today?

  3. What are the social and psychological costs associated with upward mobility?

  4. What is the essence of the Consumer-Choice model? • The Business-Domination model? • The Institutional Approach? • Which of these is the best fit and why?

  5. Discussion Questions • How do Brint and Karabel describe the role of community colleges in shaping the parameters of college access? • Who or what is most responsible for the occupationalization of community colleges? • Why?

  6. Discussion Questions • In what ways does their description confirm the Rothstein article? • The Deil-Amen/Rosenbaum article?  • In what way does it seem to contradict either or both of these articles?

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