Indebted - How Families Make College Work At Any Cost

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Caitlin Zaloom, Zaloom Caitlin
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2021
• EAN: 9780691217222
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21722-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, EDUCATION / Finance, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociology: family & relationships, Social and cultural anthropology, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology: family and relationships, Society and Social Sciences, Funding of education & student finance, Funding of education and student finance