Analysis Of Karen Ho's Biographies Of Hegemony

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have faith in the people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them”. This quote perfectly conveys Karen Ho’s perceptive that is present, in her article “Biographies of Hegemony”. In her article, she provides another understanding of intelligence. She uses the case of Wall Street workers and their personal and educational backgrounds to make her case. “Implicit in this transformation from undergraduate to investment banker is Wall Street's notion that if students do not choose Wall street postgraduation, they are somehow “less smart”, as smartness is defined by continued aggressive striving to perpetuate elite status” (Ho 18). Ho’s conception of the educational system has been narrowed down to the social norms that society places. Smartness is merely associated with individuals who go to the best Ivy League Schools, medical schools, law schools, and etc. If a student is attending such institute they

By crowdsourcing and emergence proposes that people communally are capable of higher -level thinking. She describes numerous ways for harnessing of this intelligence by institutions today. Davidson’s experience of difference influenced her attuites toward learning, and those attitudes have been shaped by the example of her mother in law, Inez Davidson. She values the past in her philosophy and dives deeply into the roots of modern higher education with an enlightening description of the reforms that Charles William Eliot brought to Harvard during his presidency. In contrast, Ho suggests that intelligence or “smartness” is not a matter of computing power of brilliance, but rather it is an ideology: “coproduced through the interactions of multiple institutions, processes, and American culture at large”, which contribute to the vast influence of certain groups of people (Ho