Assignment task:
YouTube Video: How Broken The College Admissions Process Is (HBO)
Q1. Think about social factors like class, race, and gender. How could those factors influence access to the educational system? Discuss how the videos challenge the theory of meritocracy (that we succeed or fail based on merit or hard work). Consider the information is Chapter 13 on education and the films watched.
Q2. In the article called "What Is Cultural Capital? Do I Have It?," they discuss three parts of Bourdieu's Cultural Capital (Embodied State, Objectified State, and Institutional State). Discuss at least one of these and connect to the article and film(s).