--- Turns out, the college experience - what were told is the most obvious path to upward mobility - is actually reinforcing class inequality as much as it disrupts it. Armstrong and Hamilton share the results of a five-year interview study on the campus of MU - an unnamed, Midwestern public university. The authors lived with, followed and interviewed a large group of women in a party dorm as they navigated college and post-college life. Their research shows how many universities are literally designed for students privileged enough to party their way through school, knowing full well that theyll have a job waiting for them (and a parental financial cushion if they dont). The authors dub this problem the party pathway - a social life powered mostly by fraternities and sororities that provides a way for affluent, white, socially oriented students to isolate themselves from their less privileged peers. Between these social networks, plus easy majors and parents to support them throughout college and after, the new student elite is destined for success before they hit their first kegger. For less fortunate students, the same path proves disastrous. Armstrong and Hamilton found out that without parental resources to compensate for poor achievement and limited skill acquisition, a number left college at risk of downward mobility.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:46:19 +0000
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