SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Financial Capital, Social Network, Westchester County, New York

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Education can make a difference: also matters when, years between 5th and 8th grade. Hispanic high school dropout rate plummeted in the past 2 decades. Immigration policy: sending people back to their countries of origin. Economy also encourages people and their family to stay in school. Demonstrate that you have needed skills in the economy. Immigration policy attracts certain people to come to the us (education, needed jobs in economy, like engineers, technicians, other high-paying, higher status jobs) College completion by race and ethnicity (overall, entire population: asians = 63, whites= 41, blacks= 22, hispanics= 15, more likely to enroll in community colleges or two-year colleges, lower debt load. Median income for selected education levels, men and women ages 25 years or older, 2008: getti(cid:374)g a (cid:271)a(cid:272)helor"s degree, o(cid:374) a(cid:448)erage, dou(cid:271)les your i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)e tha(cid:374) just a high school degree, doctorate degree, men: ~ ,000, women: ~ ,000.