Open AccessDegree by Default
Author(s) -
April Yee
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
contexts
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1537-6052
pISSN - 1536-5042
DOI - 10.1177/1536504212466331
Subject(s) - degree (music) , ethnography , sociology , anthropology , acoustics , physics
In past generations, college was thought to be a site for higher learning in America. Yet April Yee’s ethnographic research finds that few undergraduates are enrolling for the pursuit of knowledge anymore; instead, students are going to college simply because they believe they must have a degree to have a future in our society.
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