Examples of college education in the following topics:
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- The lower-middle class are those with some education and comfortable salaries, but with socioeconomic statuses below the upper-middle class.
- Lower-middle class individuals commonly have some college education or a bachelor's degree and earn a comfortable living.
- These types of occupations usually require some education but generally do not require a graduate degree.
- In terms of educational attainment, 27% of persons had a bachelor's degree or higher.
- If the upper middle and upper class combined are to constitute 16% of the population, it becomes clear that some of those in the lower middle class boast college degrees or some college education.
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- In 2009 in the United States, 2.9% of adults 35–39 without a college degree were divorced, compared with 1.6% with a college education.
- Success in marriage has been associated with higher education and higher age. 81% of college graduates, over 26 years of age, who wed in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later. 65% of college graduates under 26, who married in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later. 49% of high school graduates under 26 years old, who married in the 1980's, were still married 20 years later.
- In 2009, 2.9% of adults 35–39 without a college degree were divorced, compared with 1.6% with a college education.
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- Thus, education beyond college is required for many middle to upper class professions.
- The educational attainment of the U.S. population parallels that of many other industrialized countries, with the vast majority of the population having completed secondary education and a rising number of college graduates outnumbering high school dropouts.
- Tertiary education is rarely free, but the costs do vary widely; tuition at elite private colleges often exceeds $200,000 for a four-year program while public colleges and universities typically charge much less (for state residents).
- Many colleges and universities offer scholarships to make higher education more affordable.
- The income of people with bachelor's degrees was above the national median, while the median income of people with some college education remained near the national median.
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- To succeed in college, students must learn a second, hidden curriculum to meet unstated academic and social norms.
- In it, he argued that the college experience is inherently marked by conflict between students and instructors.
- Students, Snyder maintains, increasingly view their education as a type of game they must master.
- Some, even the most gifted, are turned off to education altogether.
- These students are just beginning their college education, where they may also have to learn a hidden curriculum.
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- Women have historically been disadvantaged in education, and learning has often been segregated along gender lines.
- Higher education has historically been regarded as a male domain.
- Even as women's education became more robust, it was considered to be distinct from men's education.
- By the mid-1800s, several women's colleges had been established, and many were coupled with men's universities as coordinate colleges.
- The most famous women's colleges in the United States were known as the Seven Sisters colleges and included Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Smith College, Radcliffe College, Bryn Mawr College, and Barnard College.
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- As of 2003, one's level of educational attainment was a significant predictor of the educational attainment of one's spouse.
- People without a high school diploma are unlikely to marry someone with more educational attainment and people with a college degree are likely to marry people with a similar level of educational attainment.
- Part of the reason why education is so influential in determining the level of education of one's spouse is because people tend to form groups based on levels of education.
- But jobs after one completes his or her education also tend to be grouped by level of education.
- As a result, people spend more time with individuals of a similar level of educational attainment.
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- The working class consists of individuals and households with low educational attainment, low status occupations, and below average incomes.
- Their occupations may require vocational training but generally do not require a college degree, and they likely earn an income above minimum wage but below the national average.
- Members of the working class commonly have only a high school diploma, although some may have minimal college courses to their credit as well.
- Due to differences between middle and working-class cultures, working-class college students may face "culture shock" upon entering the post-secondary education system, with its "middle class" culture.
- Explain how differences in class culture may affect working-class students who enter the post-secondary education system
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- Many prestigious colleges and universities in the U.S. are known to give preference to "legacy students," or the children of alumni.
- Just as education and social class are closely intertwined, stratification in education contributes to stratification in social class.
- Educational attainment refers to the level of schooling a person completes — for instance, high school, some college, college, or a graduate degree.
- Such educational inequality is further reinforced by legacy admission, the preference given by educational institutions to applicants who are related to alumni of that institution.
- Germane to to university and college admissions (particularly in the United States), this practice emerged after World War I, primarily in response to the resulting immigrant influx.
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- Student achievement is highly correlated with family characteristics, including household income and parental educational attainment.
- Colleges tend to draw students from a relatively advantaged background because of their high costs and stiff academic requirements for enrollment.
- What's more, because colleges want to maintain their rankings in various college ranking systems (e.g., U.S.
- News & World Report), colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
- Examine the various factors within family background that give students an advantage in the educational realm
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- Whereas some people laud education as the great equalizer, others observe the effects of school funding schemes and conclude that they actually reinforce inequality and stratification.
- According to the American dream, children should be able to use their education to achieve upward mobility.
- Colleges tend to draw students from a relatively advantaged background because of their high costs and stiff academic requirements for enrollment.
- What's more, because colleges want to maintain their rankings in various college ranking systems, colleges favor students with higher standardized test scores and aggressively recruit them using "merit" scholarships.
- This ends up reinforcing the existing status hierarchy by keeping the affluent wealthy, and the poor unable to attend college.