Indebted (eBook)

How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

Caitlin Zaloom (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22321-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 529 plan • Ability to pay • Adviser • African American family • African Americans • Aid • American middle class • americans • anthropologist • Associate Degree • Bachelor's degree • Bankruptcy • Calculation • Capitalism • Career • Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities • College Board • community college • Consideration • Customer • debt • Determination • Economics • economist • Education • Employment • expected family contribution • Expense • fafsa • family income • Family Lives • Finance • financial adviser • financial literacy • For-profit higher education in the United States • Funding • Graduation • grandparent • higher education • His Family • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Home Equity • Household • income • Institution • Interview • Investment Fund • Investor • middle class • mortgage loan • Nancy Fraser • narrative • New York University • Nuclear family • of education • Oppression • parenting • Payment • Pension • PLUS Loan • Poverty • Private School • private university • Public institution (United States) • Public university • pundit • Racism • Rational Choice Theory • Remarriage • repayment plan • Requirement • Research assistant • Retirement • Russell Sage Foundation • salary • Sallie Mae • saving • Scholarship • Security (finance) • sibling • Social mobility • Social Science • Sociology • standard of living • state school • Student • Student Debt • student loan • Subsidy • Tax • Technology • Trade-off • Tuition payments • Uncertainty • University • vocational education • Wealth • welfare • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22321-1 / 0691223211
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22321-6 / 9780691223216