Indebted
How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Seiten
2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21722-2 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21722-2 (ISBN)
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. She describes the profound moral conflicts for parents as they try to honor what they see as their highest parental duty—providing their children with opportunity—and shows how parents and students alike are forced to gamble on an investment that might not pay off. Superbly written and unflinchingly honest, Indebted breaks through the culture of silence surrounding the student debt crisis, exposing the unspoken costs of sending our kids to college.
Caitlin Zaloom is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Twitter @caitlinzaloom
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.04.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 b/w illus. |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-21722-X / 069121722X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-21722-2 / 9780691217222 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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