Annotated Bibliography
Ain't No Makin' It
MacLeod, J. (2008). Ain't no makin' it: Aspirations and attainment in a low-income neighborhood. Boulder, Colo: Westview. The Meritocracy Myth McNamee, S. J., & Miller, R. K. (2004). The meritocracy myth. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. Strapped Draut, T. (2005). Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-somethings can't get ahead. New York: Doubleday. The Big Squeeze Greenhouse, S. (2008). The big squeeze: Tough times for the American worker. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Gig Bowe, J., Bowe, M., & Streeter, S. C. (2000). Gig: Americans talk about their jobs at the turn of the millennium. New York: Crown Publishers. "Will Work for Academic Credit" Yagoda, B. (2008). Will Work for Academic Credit. Chronicle Of Higher Education, 54(28), A36. "The Trouble with Internships" Burns, G. (1987). The Trouble with Internships. |
A longitudinal report on the evolution of the achievement ideologies
within two groups of friends growing up in the housing projects of New York City. MacLeod's research provides effective insight to our socioeconomic immobility. McNamee discredits our faith in meritocracy as misguidance, invalid, ungrounded, a myth. The book argues that despite our best efforts and our individual ambition and merit, we are unlikely to breach the sociological class and status into which we were born. Demonstrates, among other things, how and why a college education may stunt our career development. Higher education, while nearly a criteria for individual marketability, presently stands at such a high price it often does not even out when an individual enters the work force. Rather, it takes a large part of one's career, if not the entire career, to complete payments on debt collected during college. Another account of American working conditions which appropriately employs the melodramatic rhetoric. Contrary to the information in Strapped, The Big Squeeze provides a particularly compelling expression of the lowest rung of American workers. A collection of narratives representing American workers in the twenty-first century. Gig includes the first-person anecdotes of members of the working and professional classes. These stories contribute to the melodramatic nature of my stance on socioeconomic class. This evaluation of unpaid internships tightly aligns with the research I wish to contribute to the discussion on widening the gap between students of different socioeconomic class. A professional who oversees internship accreditation, Yagoda examines the summer internship as it molds into more of an academic course, offering academic credit and costing "tuition." Brings the entire practice of internships into question, highlighting the underqualifications of internship supervisors, This derives from Burns' perspective in the broadcasting industry. Burns comments on the "internship boom," conceding that vocational experience can be eye-opening, but emphasizes that said experience can also have very narrow applications. |