Follow A Student: Paper Four

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In her or his fifth paper, the student used McLaughlin and Heath's concept of "casting the self" to further examine Barber's vision of society:

   American government has always had the special task of effectively addressing a culturally diverse public in a supportive way. This is becoming especially difficult as government is growing into a centralized bureaucracy rather than a local regulator of communities. To address this conflict, Benjamin Barber, in his essay "Making Civil Society Real," outlines a civil society in which citizens take responsibility for community cohesion, the regulate markets, and have direct and consistent influence over government. Milbrey W. McLaughlin and Shirley Brice Heath, in their essays, "Casting the Self: Frames for Identity and Dilemmas for Policy," demonstrate conflicts between subjective and objective perspectives in government intervention with urban teens. More specifically, they emphasize the need for government programs to help inner-city youth develop a positive identity so that they can "cast themselves" onto mainstream society. Both essays deal with how government must downsize in order to meet the needs of localized social groups and how a diverse public can achieve its common goals through effective self-government. The level of responsibility placed on the citizens of Barber's "civil society" requires that members of every social group are able to cast themselves.

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Here are the end comments:

Some effective analytical connections were, as you bridge these works; you introduce some effective quotes, as well. I've given you some thoughts as to how you . . . .

Unfortunately, we don't have the instructor's full comments. Nevertheless, already we can see that the instructor is focusing (in part) on the student's use of quotation to forge an analysis that uses the two essays. Now let's look at paper five.

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