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.
發表於2024-11-25
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圖書標籤: 社會學 教育 教育社會學 美國 English 階級再製 選校 政治學
觀點不新,觀察有趣但總蜻蜓點水。比較culture shock的是宿捨同樓層關係的緊密,國內大學基本沒有這種一層樓社交的概念吧…互相最多的encounter就是在水房和淋浴間,在偷聽來的隻言片語、廁所沒有衝掉的屎尿和旁邊垃圾桶的衛生巾裏認識同層樓的其他女生。對我觀照自身倒是頗具啓發。
評分觀點不新,觀察有趣但總蜻蜓點水。比較culture shock的是宿捨同樓層關係的緊密,國內大學基本沒有這種一層樓社交的概念吧…互相最多的encounter就是在水房和淋浴間,在偷聽來的隻言片語、廁所沒有衝掉的屎尿和旁邊垃圾桶的衛生巾裏認識同層樓的其他女生。對我觀照自身倒是頗具啓發。
評分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
評分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
評分通過一個party school的大學的例子,講大學組織和大學生活如何塑造學生日後的社會流動。想推薦給每個投身大學生活的朋友們閱覽,隻看開頭和結尾也可,當美國生活情景劇看也可。這本對於大學軌跡的歸類太有意思瞭,有中國大學生個體很難意識到的階層視角和大學組織視角。欲清醒地生存,先要清楚規則,這本大概是用社會學視角和社科的理論框架分析齣瞭一個規則。規則之下,纔談得上個人努力和機遇吧。
Paying for the Party 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載