Paying for the party : how college maintains inequality

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality ; by. Elizabeth A. Armstrong,. Laura Hamilton ; Paying for the Party is a powerful, carefully researched. 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. Paying for the Party. How College Maintains Inequality “Paying for the Party is well written and perversely hard to put down.

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Elizabeth A. Armstrong (Author), Laura T. Hamilton (Author), Chloe Cannon (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) 1 more/5(). Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press, “ Armstrong and Hamilton use an ethnographic and longitudinal approach to research based on a cohort of 53 female students who enter “Midwestern University – MU”.  · In an era of skyrocketing tuition and 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 detail why so many leave college with so little to show for it.

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality Audible Audiobook – Unabridged Elizabeth A. Armstrong (Author), Laura T. Hamilton (Author), Chloe Cannon (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) 1 more. “ Instead of being a great equalizer, Paying for the Party argues, the American way of college rewards those who come not just academically but socially prepared, while treating working-class students more cruelly, and often leaving them adrift. ” —Ross Douthat, The New York Times. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality Paperback – Octo by Elizabeth A. Armstrong (Author), Laura T. Hamilton (Author) ratings See all formats and editions eTextbook $ Read with Our Free App Audiobook $ Free with your Audible trial Hardcover $ 23 Used from $ 11 New from $ Paperback.

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality is a powerful, carefully researched, and ultimately furious work of social science. Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton conclude that such campuses are doing a bad job for many students, and break this down meticulously. The authors spent a great deal of time with 45 or so undergraduate women, living for part of a year on their shared dorm room floor. The resulting book is rich with conversations, analysis, and as much longitudinal followup as time permitted. Armstrong and Hamilton identify a series of pathways students can take through the university experience.