https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/ critical anthropology of academic culture Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/#comment-1389 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:37:42 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1851#comment-1389 I’m not sure it’s fair to say societies had no unemployment when they didn’t have “employment” as we understand it, at least for the majority of people. Employment suggests a wage paid for work done (whether that’s cash or barter) on a semi-regular basis, which cultivating one’s own land doesn’t provide. Employment is part of a modern economy (and I mean “modern” not as a term of progress but of historical recency). And many societies have had mendicants or beggars or some people who one could consider a pre-modern analogue of unemployment.

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/#comment-1388 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:10:54 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1851#comment-1388 […] unemployment and blaming universities for it: It makes no sense to blame universities for producing graduates who can’t get jobs, because the […]

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/#comment-1387 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:46:48 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1851#comment-1387 […] Hosted from blog ‘decasia: a critique of academic culture’. […]

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/#comment-1386 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:05:14 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1851#comment-1386 […] B: Eli Thorkelson just posted a critique descriptively titled: The fallacy of blaming universities for unemployment.  I am inclined to agree with his bottom-line, but due to major differences in our understanding […]

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2011/06/22/the-fallacy-of-blaming-universities-for-unemployment/#comment-1385 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:48:20 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1851#comment-1385 I disagree that unemployment can be completely eliminated without other worse consequences. But I agree that the government could do something significant about it. Unfortunately the public is unaware of what they should be asking for and so, in our democracy, they won’t get it. I also agree that liberal arts faculty bear little responsibility. Students who choose an education that places them in debt and fails to help them find a job, however, should (and often do) take some responsibility for their choices. Not that I don’t feel for them. Nor would I oppose all reforms that attempted to help such individuals.

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