Title
Parent’s Guide to College in Europe
Episode Summary
In this episode, Jenn talks about threshold model of collective behavior first introduced to us in Malcolm Gladwell’s amazing podcast, Revisionist History. This theory describes how some people within a group are more comfortable than others when acting against group norms. If you’re at all interested in college in Europe, I encourage you to listen to Gladwell’s podcast episode, The Big Man Can’t Shoot, which explains an academic concept using an accessible sports motif.
Jenn’s guest for this episode is one of our members, Laura, whose daughter, Liza, is attending Anglo American University in Prague, Czech Republic.
Guest
Laura, Liza’s mother & Beyond the States member
Resources
Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast: Revisionist History
BTS Blog: What’s Your Threshold?
Sociologist Mark Granovetter’s 1978 paper on threshold model of collective behavior
BTS Blog: Do You Have What It Takes?
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