I really had no idea what to expect when I was walking into Ricky Lee Allen’s presentation.  I really knew nothing about him before but I learned quite a bit abut his background and his personal relation to his main study social pedagogy.  He was from a low income family raised in a small town where all the people who lived there worked in factories.  For instance his mother made electrical switches all her life and he pointed out that that was all she really knew how to do.  That this is what was expected of him and his family as well as all the other kids from low income factory working families.  He also stated that only ten percent of his graduating class went to college.  He was sort of the exception in his family and the town he grew up in, he stated that everyone knew and said he would be the one to go to college.  Although it is extremely obvious how social economic status and family income affects lifestyles.  I think that an individual has the ability to advance in any goal they set if they have the self will and determination.  This was such an interesting and eye opening lecture that really stated the obvious.  Our society is so set in its ways that everyone seems to over look how we are like, “sheep being herded in a set direction through life”.  It is depressing that our society has done nothing to change the tracking, but I wonder how and if we could handle it.  I think it would take a very powerful opinion to change the opinions and views of the American society in which many are set in their ways.  The thought of change is very scary to many Americans and the very thought might reek havoc not to mention what it would be like if a new social order was set in place.