Nonetheless, a bit of fun.
Knowing your academic BG, I expected you to deconstruct it for us. I don't know how successful the choice of questions by them was, but it makes sense, to me, to differentiate the economic from the social.
I am sure you are reading the "Class" series in the NYT. It's a marxist approach, and the underpinning research that started it is open to question, but it is a good wonkish subject to cover.
One good thing it has caused is a lot of critique of the subject on the web, which I have been posting. I have seen too many examples of immigrants having their children move from poverty to success in this country to buy the idea that social mobility has ceased. If you are bright, and willing to study, there is no limit to what you can accomplish, IMO.
A lot of people have moved up the ladder, and their kids don't evidence a desire to move further. I have interviewed too many kids whose parents become professionals, while they used their parent's money to loaf to a Social Science degree and ended up clerks. |
