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...detailing the supreme importance of motivation that Jencks is most interesting. Motivation is seen as a direct result of class culture. Not only are children from the "higher" strata of society expected by society, their families, and, of course, by themselves to go to college, but basic human nature drives one to hold on to what one has so that "...virtually all children from the higher strata have an intense interest in avoiding downward mobility." "Lower" strata children, on the other hand, are not only expected to remain where they are by society, their families, and themselves--they also...
However, it is when Jencks moves into his data-less area of politics and conjecture that he falters. Jencks maintains that the selected admission of outstanding members of the lower social strata into the upper ranks of society is not an effective method of preventing revolutionary uprisings from the frustrated ones. "On the contrary," he says, "educated outsiders seem to be the enzymes without which revolution is almost impossible...
...thing to change in the upwardly mobile. Indeed, if the "anticipatory socialization" that Seymour Lipset and Reinhard Bendix speak of in their book "Social Mobility in Industrial Society" is at work, the political and social orientations of the upwardly mobile begins to change even before they enter the higher strata--which is one of the reasons they do enter the higher strata. Except for the most unusual of an already unusual group, the upwardly mobile are eager to abandon their lower class orientations and, through a subtle process of cultural osmosis, come to completely identify with the new social environment...
...Reed. There is something about Lou Reed that makes him appealing to a circumscribed strata of the present-day rock culture. It is almost as impossible to penetrate the opaque image that Reed has projected for about a decade as it is to generalize about the classic Reed freak. There are people who have been staunch followers of Reed since his days with the Velvet Underground. Then there are those who discovered Reed with the debut of his solo career. The latter, embarrassed to admit the fact that they were seven years late, quickly bought up all the Velvets previously...
...political activists tended to come from the upper strata of U.S. society. Some 43% of the activists earn over $15,000 a year, compared with only 22% of the nonactivists. The activists more often come from professional and executive backgrounds (42% v. 12% of the nonactivists), live in the big cities and suburbs (67% v. 52%) and are neither very young nor very old. Only 8% of the activists are under 25 years of age, while 4% are 65 or older; some 21% of the nonactivists are under 25, and 18% are 65 or older. Among other things the next...