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082 0 4 _a378.19822
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aArmstrong, Elizabeth A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPaying for the Party :
_bHow College Maintains Inequality /
_cElizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource :
_b2 line illustrations, 15 tables
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tFigures and Tables --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 The Women --
_t2 The Party Pathway --
_t3 Rush and the Party Scene --
_t4 The Floor --
_t5 Socialites, Wannabes, and Fit with the Party Pathway --
_t6 Strivers, Creaming, and the Blocked Mobility Pathway --
_t7 Achievers, Underachievers, and the Professional Pathway --
_t8 College Pathways and Post- College Prospects --
_t9 Politics and Pathways --
_tAPPENDIX A: Participants --
_tAPPENDIX B: Studying Social Class --
_tAPPENDIX C: Data Collection, Analysis, and Writing --
_tAPPENDIX D: Ethical Considerations --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTwo 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aEducational sociology
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPublic universities and colleges
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWomen college students
_zUnited States
_xSocial conditions.
650 4 _aEDUCATION / Students & Student Life.
650 4 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
650 4 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
650 7 _aEDUCATION / Higher.
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700 1 _aHamilton, Laura T.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073517
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