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FREEWRITE: I find myself very interested in what, besides money, motivates the economy. For example, I am using the movie Pretty Woman as my artifact for project one, and am discussing how we can look at “beauty” as a form of currency. I think that this is a particularly interesting point of view, because otherContinue reading “Engagement 02/17/2020”

This reading talks about the “new economy” and how it affects for-profit colleges, or rather, how for-profit colleges benefit from it. It also explains how traditional colleges operated on the assumption that providing an education will aid our economy by ensuring labor market stability. However, for-profit colleges operate simply as a way to make money.Continue reading “Reading Response 2/17/2020”

This dense article talks about the different types of capital (“accumulated labor that enables us to appropriate social energy”): economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Economic capital is immediately convertible into money. Cultural capital has three of its own forms: embodied state, objectified state, and institutionalized state. These break down into dispositions and educationContinue reading “2/10/2020 Reading Response”

This week’s reading, Payments and Social Ties, by Viviana A. Zelizer, talks about the connections between money and society, and about how money functions in our society. To introduce this topic, Zelizer asked the reader to consider a futuristic society where a “traditional” home functions by the breadwinner paying a salary to the domestic significantContinue reading “Reading Response 02/03/2020”

Question of the Day: A piece of culture that I have recently encountered that has to do with money is a character in the book Crying In Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon who owns shares in all types of industries from cigarettes to empty lots to art. All of these businesses will later add upContinue reading “1/29”