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The Impact of Mass Education on American Culture
05:59 - 14:59 (08:59)
The availability of mass education in the 1960s caused a flood of educated individuals into the workforce and a shift towards American culture based on their tastes. This post-New Deal realignment allowed the more educated upper middle class to associate themselves with the elite rather than the traditional middle class.
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An analysis of how the creation of an educated upper middle class has brought counterculture attitudes and aesthetics into the mainstream, while former anti-establishment members of this class become more conservative over time.
05:59 - 09:25 (03:25)
Summary
An analysis of how the creation of an educated upper middle class has brought counterculture attitudes and aesthetics into the mainstream, while former anti-establishment members of this class become more conservative over time.
ChapterThe Impact of Mass Education on American Culture
EpisodeDavid Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"
PodcastIf Books Could Kill
The term "McJob" was coined by Barbara and John Ehrenreich in their 1978 paper which discussed the division between capital and labor predicted by Marx, and the mismatch between employees' skills and the demands of certain jobs.
09:25 - 11:02 (01:36)
Summary
The term "McJob" was coined by Barbara and John Ehrenreich in their 1978 paper which discussed the division between capital and labor predicted by Marx, and the mismatch between employees' skills and the demands of certain jobs.
ChapterThe Impact of Mass Education on American Culture
EpisodeDavid Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"
PodcastIf Books Could Kill
In this podcast, the speaker discusses a book that claims the expansion of education in the 1960s created millions of educated people who flooded into the workforce, replicating American culture along the lines of their own tastes, resulting in the emergence of new terms like "cappuccino gulping bankers".
11:02 - 14:59 (03:56)
Summary
In this podcast, the speaker discusses a book that claims the expansion of education in the 1960s created millions of educated people who flooded into the workforce, replicating American culture along the lines of their own tastes, resulting in the emergence of new terms like "cappuccino gulping bankers".