Paying for the party
Subtitle: how college maintains inequality
By: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton
Contributors: Hamilton, Laura T. (Laura Teresa)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780674049574
Subjects: Social conditions; Women college students; Educational sociology; Public universities and colleges
Description: In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it," the authors assess the state of American higher education. They provide a powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, and explain in vivid detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it. Mapping different pathways available to students at a flagship Midwestern public university, the authors demonstrate that the most well-resourced and seductive route is a "party pathway" anchored in the Greek system, facilitated by the administration--and with serious disadvantages for the majority of students.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.297-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: The women; title: The party pathway; title: Rush and the party scene; title: The floor; title: Socialites and wannabes: fit and misfit with the party pathway; title: Strivers, creaming, and the blocked mobility pathway; title: Achievers, underachievers, and the professional pathway; title: College pathways and post-college prospects; title: Politics and pathways.