发表于2024-12-22
Paying for the Party 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 教育 教育社会学 美国 English 阶级再制 选校 政治学
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 fiance. 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 expose 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.
通过一个party school的大学的例子,讲大学组织和大学生活如何塑造学生日后的社会流动。想推荐给每个投身大学生活的朋友们阅览,只看开头和结尾也可,当美国生活情景剧看也可。这本对于大学轨迹的归类太有意思了,有中国大学生个体很难意识到的阶层视角和大学组织视角。欲清醒地生存,先要清楚规则,这本大概是用社会学视角和社科的理论框架分析出了一个规则。规则之下,才谈得上个人努力和机遇吧。
评分Good work in summarizing different class projects and college pathways that lead to different college experience and class trajectories. I clearly notice that the central theme of all social theories is to study how post-secondary institutions REPRODUCE social structure and make the society stable. Just dislike its view of socialite & marriage. M
评分观点不新,观察有趣但总蜻蜓点水。比较culture shock的是宿舍同楼层关系的紧密,国内大学基本没有这种一层楼社交的概念吧…互相最多的encounter就是在水房和淋浴间,在偷听来的只言片语、厕所没有冲掉的屎尿和旁边垃圾桶的卫生巾里认识同层楼的其他女生。对我观照自身倒是颇具启发。
评分Good work in summarizing different class projects and college pathways that lead to different college experience and class trajectories. I clearly notice that the central theme of all social theories is to study how post-secondary institutions REPRODUCE social structure and make the society stable. Just dislike its view of socialite & marriage. M
评分Inspire my current book.
Paying for the Party 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书