Students across the country are facing a mounting challenge upon graduation. This challenge is not one that is easily surmounted or circumvented. The challenge is also not limited in scope to one social class or geographical region. The challenge facing more and more students every year is student loans. The loans themselves are not the issue, but rather the excessive amount of debt that tends to follow. A recent analysis, done by the Wall Street Journal, has shown that over half of students across 347 different universities have defaulted on their student loans(Fuller & Belkin). The issues arise when the tactics that universities use to enroll students are examined in line with this recent study. Three different sociological concepts have
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It is not simply just the geographical location, but all the aspects of culture and society that make up that individual (Wright). The social location of a person is dependent on both the social structure and the social institutions present in their life (Wright). An example of social location can be viewed if an imaginary college student is created. For instance, imagine a freshman male student who is from Chicago and was born into a middle class society. He is a Christian and ranks himself as a moderate when expressing his views on American politics. In this example all the descriptive features used to explain this fictional character are a part of his social location. The social location is unique to an individual, meaning everyone varies slightly in some way …show more content…
are severely effected by the student loan default rates. Social location has a major impact on the way in which students attend and fund their higher education. Those individuals who are not economically able to fund their college education are either left out of higher education, or must resort to taking out student loans to cover the cost. By taking out student loans, individuals are entrapping themselves in a lifetime of debt to both private and government institutions. David Bergeron, a former education advisor to the White House Administration, said “ [i]t’s [higher education] supposed to lift people up, out of their circumstances and leave them better” (Fuller & Belkin). His point is that the default rate on student loans is pushing college graduates into poverty and reducing any opportunity to get back to a decent economic
It is not simply just the geographical location, but all the aspects of culture and society that make up that individual (Wright). The social location of a person is dependent on both the social structure and the social institutions present in their life (Wright). An example of social location can be viewed if an imaginary college student is created. For instance, imagine a freshman male student who is from Chicago and was born into a middle class society. He is a Christian and ranks himself as a moderate when expressing his views on American politics. In this example all the descriptive features used to explain this fictional character are a part of his social location. The social location is unique to an individual, meaning everyone varies slightly in some way …show more content…
are severely effected by the student loan default rates. Social location has a major impact on the way in which students attend and fund their higher education. Those individuals who are not economically able to fund their college education are either left out of higher education, or must resort to taking out student loans to cover the cost. By taking out student loans, individuals are entrapping themselves in a lifetime of debt to both private and government institutions. David Bergeron, a former education advisor to the White House Administration, said “ [i]t’s [higher education] supposed to lift people up, out of their circumstances and leave them better” (Fuller & Belkin). His point is that the default rate on student loans is pushing college graduates into poverty and reducing any opportunity to get back to a decent economic