Degrees Without Freedom

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The book Degrees without Freedom? It re-Evaluates discussions on modernity, education and social change in new improvement training and anthropology. Education is attributed to the ability to modify the projections of the poor people. However, there is widespread unemployment among the educated individuals in the rural North India. Because of this, education is understood as a self-contradictory resource equipping the marginalized youth with various freedoms but bringing them tightly into the systems of inequality in the society.
The book Degrees without Freedom further supports the above observation by presenting case studies of very educated unemployed persons or those that are highly educated but are underemployed young individuals in the …show more content…

Tony graduated from Camden High School in 2013 and decided not to go to college. Tony expressed that his education experience was a challenge. He felt that the time he spent in school he could have been work. This ultimately was his reason not to go to college. Right after graduation, Tony started working at a distribution warehouse where he currently works today. Tony believes that to be educated does not necessarily mean you have to go through traditional forms of school. Education, to him can be learned through onsite training. Growing up in a low income area, Tony always felt the pressure to get a job right out of high school in order to support his …show more content…

The writer explores the attitude of those who view rural education as a system that occasionally fails, indicating the unpredictable mix of marginalization and underemployment. The book does not condemn education as the cause of the problem but offers proves that education alone cannot solve social, economic and developmental problems. As I mentioned earlier, Tony felt that he could not further his education because he had to support his family. He mentioned that he grew up in a single parent house hold where he had 3 younger siblings. Tony felt responsible for his younger siblings and wanted to help support his mother finically. The authors analyze the political and cultural ground on which the potential benefits of the education system are mediated by the social and cultural capital in significantly politicized settings and uneven

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