SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Henry Giroux, Expansionism, Human Capital
5 Jan 2020
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The university is a critical institution, or it is nothing stuart hall, 1968 (1932 2014) At it"s best, education is dangerous because it offers young people and other actors the promise of racial and economic justice, a future in which democracy becomes inclusive and a dream in which all lives matter. Expansion of colleges and universities to match the economic boom. After 1975: forms of economic production in economic sphere changed reduced corporate taxation. Result was that there was less money to put into other social institutions (i. e. , education) Human capital thesis to explain economic growth and educational expansion: Invest in education to ensure workers will be knowledgeable, trained, and skilled. Argues that marginalized groups earn less because they have less human capital. Disqualified as: inadequate to the task, insufficiently elaborated, or perhaps not objective or scientific enough for textbooks. Response to the legacy of a century of enforced residential schooling of.
