The Cost and Returns of Pursuing a College Degree

Name Instructor Course Date Reading Assignment 2 [University] Costs of going to college based on Conley include direct costs like tuition, fees, room and board for the period one is to be at college and the indirect costs as those connected to amount of time one devotes to school (Pg, 8). Such costs implies that choosing full-time school over full-time work immediately after high school may prove a loss as one would make so much in four years as total wage without incurring education pressures. On the other hand, return of going to college remains coined around the college degree as it defines better pay in any job opportunity (Pg, 9). Although the high-school leaver will have worked four years prior the college/university graduate, by retire time the graduate will have earned significantly higher than the high school worker thus the need to acquire college degree. What is social institution and how does it relate to identity? Social institution can be defined as any institution be it college, university, vocational center or any other institution within a society that works towards shaping the behavior of individuals or groups within it. Social institutions relate to identity based on the sum of total stories about them that people narrate from one person to the other. What those within and those who have been into these social institutions say about them develop a certain image that such institutions identify with and altering with such an identity proves a challenge. Who was August Comte and how did sociology develop as a discipline? August Comte was a French scholar that invented social physics or positivism (Pg, 15). During this invention era, Comte noted the need to make moral sense of the social order