Paying for the Party : How College Maintains Inequality / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton.
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., author.; Hamilton, Laura T., author.
2013
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Title Paying for the Party : How College Maintains Inequality / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton.
Author Armstrong, Elizabeth A., author.
ISBN 9780674073517
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073517
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 2 line illustrations, 15 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674073517 doi
Call Number LC1756
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.19822
Summary Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it," Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher education. A powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, it explains in vivid detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. Drawing on findings from a five-year interview study, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton bring us to the campus of "MU," a flagship Midwestern public university, where we follow a group of women drawn into a culture of status seeking and sororities. Mapping different pathways available to MU students, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced and seductive route is a "party pathway" anchored in the Greek system and facilitated by the administration. This pathway exerts influence over the academic and social experiences of all students, and while it benefits the affluent and well-connected, Armstrong and Hamilton make clear how it seriously disadvantages the majority. Eye-opening and provocative, Paying for the Party reveals how outcomes can differ so dramatically for those whom universities enroll.
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Added Author Hamilton, Laura T., author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
1 The Women
2 The Party Pathway
3 Rush and the Party Scene
4 The Floor
5 Socialites, Wannabes, and Fit with the Party Pathway
6 Strivers, Creaming, and the Blocked Mobility Pathway
7 Achievers, Underachievers, and the Professional Pathway
8 College Pathways and Post- College Prospects
9 Politics and Pathways
APPENDIX A: Participants
APPENDIX B: Studying Social Class
APPENDIX C: Data Collection, Analysis, and Writing
APPENDIX D: Ethical Considerations
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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