SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Flea Market, Grade Inflation, Ebay

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

We have had the now generation get ready for the right now generation, entering college this fall. This fall"s entering college students, the class of 2020, were born in 1998 and cannot remember a time when they had to wait for anything. 5 short years role of cellphone dramatically changed. And although they think of themselves as a powerful generation sanders voters, consumers they are faced with the prospect of student loan debt and of robots and foreigners taking their jobs making them feel anxious and weak. They know that they"re going to have to wait for that first breakthrough job and getting their school loans paid off. They"re an impatient generation learning how to be patient". Issues trying to find job after post-education studies. The class of 2019 will enter college with high technology an increasing factor in how and even what they learn They will encounter difficult discussions about privilege, race, and sexual assault on campus.