Community Colleges and the American Social Order

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Community Colleges and the American Social Order

• Stephen Brint Jerome Karabel

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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?

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

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• 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?

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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?

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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?