CMNS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-2: The Internship, Erving Goffman, Total Institution
29 Nov 2016
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The internship has become a new and distinctive form, located at the nexus of transformations in higher education and the workplace. Corporate manpower needs and national policy objectives have staked claims of their own, carving out a distinctive niche for youth labor and calling for schools to produce a constant stream of skilled workers. In the last few decades, internships have spread to virtually every industry and almost every country, while internship-related businesses and campus career offices also proliferate. On the one hand, the rise of internships has comet at dazzling speed; on the other hand, they have been thoroughly naturalized, and young people can hardly believe in a world before internships. The rise of the internship is the market"s finding the workaround to government regulations, evidence of the tendency of liberty to grow up like grass in the cracks of sidewalks. The mad pursuit of internships is justified as precious insurance against a bewildering and demoralizing job market.
