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In his article he discussed only the first three causes and quickly eliminated the first two as being of minor importance in determining the "college chances" of a student. Jencks becomes convincing when detailing the limited effects money, intelligence, and parental occupation have on a student's "college chances." Of...
It is in 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...
Thus, the process of academic selection is largely seen by Jencks as a process of voluntary compliance with implied cultural expectations. Half the total population does not graduate from high school; half the high school graduates do not enter college; half the college students never graduate; and so on--all...
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...
In addition, investigations into the nature of revolutions indicate that Jencks is totally mistaken in attributing the existence of revolutions to educated refugees from the lower classes. Rather, it seems that the major leaders of past revolutions have been what Max Nomad, a student of revolutions, called "declasse intellectuals"--members...