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Monday, February 1, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Birds of a Feather, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 1, 2010
Birds of a Feather, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 1, 2010

Some days the birdwatchers are more entertaining than the birds. This was one of those days. Except for the moment a few thousand Snow Geese suddenly took off all-at-once and headed out to roost elsewhere. Wow!

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

The Credential of the Dominant

The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.

The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001

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