Community Colleges and the
American Social Order
Stephen Brint & Jerome Karabel
American Education and the
Management of Ambition
• Does ambition really need to be managed?
• Who actually does this management?
Who should be doing it?
• How is this accomplished? What do you
see as a management of ambition in
society, today?
• What are the social and psychological
costs associated with upward mobility?
• What is the essence of the ConsumerChoice model?
• The Business-Domination model?
• The Institutional Approach?
• Which of these is the best fit and why?
Discussion Questions
• How do Brint and Karabel describe the
role of community colleges in
shaping the parameters of college access?
• Who or what is most responsible for the
occupationalization of community
colleges?
• Why?
Discussion Questions
• In what ways does their description
confirm the Rothstein article?
• The Deil-Amen/Rosenbaum article?
• In what way does it seem to contradict
either or both of these articles?