First: Apply the theoretical framework from Paying for the Party to an episode of the podcast, Revisionist History: “Food Fight”. In the episode Malcolm Gladwell compares the food in the dining halls of two elite, private liberal arts colleges, Bowdoin and Vassar, to get at the larger issue of inequality in higher education. He claims that “the food at Bowdoin is actually a problem, a moral problem.”
Define and apply the concepts class project and organizational imperatives to the podcast. Specifically, explain how the food served to students at the two colleges illuminates the organizational imperative(s) privileged at each school and how this has an impact on the class project(s) supported. Why does Gladwell argue that the food at Bowdoin is a moral issue? In other words, why does it matter that Bowdoin spends so much more money than Vassar on food?
What organizational imperative is privileged as MU and how does this impact the class project(s) and pathways that are supported?
LINK FOR PODCAST EPISODE: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/food-fight
Next: Armstrong & Hamilton argue peer hierarchies and constructions of normative femininity impacted who was privileged and disadvantaged.
Within the context of the dorm, how do “hidden injuries” of class lead to social isolation and ensure that some women are shut out of the social scene? Why do Armstrong and Hamilton argue that the larger campus peer culture affected howthe “socially ambitious” women treated everyone else? What was this treatment? What are the consequences of social isolation? Be sure to discuss these issues in terms of cultural capital and symbolic boundaries.
In your conclusion, tie both sections together. How do the organizational and interactional dimensions of college contribute to inequality?
please include an introduction, conclusion, and thesis! The book Paying for the Party will be attached below. PLEASE ONLY USE THE NOVEL AND THE PODCAST EPISODE. THANK YOU.
