What is Lower Ed? What are the consequences of Lower Ed?

What will be an ideal response?


Varies. Because of changes in the structure of society (new economy affecting how we work, unequal access to good higher education opportunities, risk shift of job training from states and companies to individual people and their families), we have increasingly become a credentialist society where people need a degree to get a job. Lower Ed, according to Cottom, is “first and foremost a set of institutions organized to commodify social inequalities” (17). Consequences include high student loan debt without graduation, lack of prestige of degrees, and unknown outcomes.

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What will be an ideal response?

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a. revolutions and other forms of social transformation b. women and minorities, and how they have gained access to equal opportunity c. the things that drive or cause changes in social life for the past 500 years d. history, i.e. the record of the past

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Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death in 1963 was very favorable toward the funeral industry

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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