GEOG 344 Study Guide - Final Guide: 22 Jump Street, Environmental Ethics, Social Capital
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Lesson of american culture: divisions between work and play, boredom and spontaneity, domestication and wildness. Besides peers students also have cultural models, like animal house, revenge of the nerds, 22. Dichotomy of someone else controlling your life at work and being free in the weekend. We have become so addicted to entertainment that we have buried the capacity for awed experience of the ordinary. We need to find more productive forms of rebelling against day-to-day routines. Now, instead of challenging the institutions that demean us, we demean ourselves in a different way. But, don"t loss the college fun of building trust and social capital. We have become too domesticated, controlled by society"s norms. We should pursue and get lost in meaningful work that makes us happy and excited. Chapter 8: the nature of sex and love. But on the positive side- sex invites us to think about the human condition. College students are early adopters of new rules.
