SY101 Final: EXAM REVIEW
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Understanding that what we experience are not just personal problems, but social issues shared by many different people. C. wright mills: believed it enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society, shapes who we are and the experiences we have, we are both individuals and members of society. Helps us to understand diversity and to question assumptions. Richard arum questioned why there was less learning going on in higher education. Some students were lucky to find jobs and some were not. Individual lives unfold in context and each context is different. Influence education and cognitive capacities through life long interactions: help in later life. Communities as a context: pat shaky: research on link between neighbouring violence an child(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s s(cid:272)hool performance, violence can also be absorbed by and transmitted through neighbouring contexts, consequences of neighbourhood violence on young children.
