SOCI 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Capital, Centrality
Document Summary
Beer is oxygen on which college life depends. Skill development vs lack of skill development = inequality. Increase in cultural capital = increase of wealth to exchange to benefit. Bread and circuses: political strategy used by roman emperors to keep people happy and to distract them from failures of daily life. Strategy worked because people showed no interest in daily life. Author says that because of beer and circus, people show little interest in education. How the culture can be a challenge for students. 25% of 18-22 aged kids are enrolled in college. Big five social markers: leaving home, finishing school, finding work, getting married, having kids. Trends of early adulthood and college going years. More students enter college and leave without degree than students who enter and do. 25-34, only 19% of men and 10% of women. Not enrolled in school, not working, no more than hs diploma.
