Paying for the Party : How College Maintains Inequality

作者：ElizabethA.Armstrong/LauraT.Hamilton

出版社：HarvardUniversityPress

副标题：HowCollegeMaintainsInequality

出版年：2013-4-8

页数：344

定价：USD37.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780674049574

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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.

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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。

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 …

如何延续阶级不平等的公立大学视角+女性视角。论点是公立大学女生毕业出路主要有家庭环境背景与学校（组织）轨迹的契合程度决定。强调公立大学公司化情况下财政收入逾越过教育质量和排名而成为学校发展的主要逻辑，相应的“派对路径”则因为迎合了上层&中上层学生对于大学教育的需求应运而生。结合Privileged poor，穷人的孩子去藤校受罪去大州立吃苦，难道真的去地方性学院/大学出路最好（可这何尝又不是再分层…

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。

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