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Elizabeth Lee - Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College - 9780801453564 - V9780801453564
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Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College

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Description for Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.

In 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks may not have grown up with the edifying vacations, museum excursions, daily doses of NPR and prep schools that groom Ivy applicants, but they are coveted candidates for elite campuses." What happens to academically talented but economically challenged "first-gen" students when they arrive on campus? Class markers aren’t always visible from a distance, but socioeconomic differences permeate campus life—and the inner experiences of students—in real and sometimes unexpected ways. In Class and Campus Life, Elizabeth M. Lee shows how ... Read more

Using material from two years of fieldwork and more than 140 interviews with students, faculty, administrators, and alumnae at the pseudonymous Linden College, Lee adds depth to our understanding of inequality in higher education. An essential part of her analysis is to illuminate the ways in which the students’ and the college’s practices interact, rather than evaluating them separately, as seemingly unrelated spheres. She also analyzes underlying moral judgments brought to light through cultural connotations of merit, hard work by individuals, and making it on your own that permeate American higher education. Using students’ own descriptions and understandings of their experiences to illustrate the complexity of these issues, Lee shows how the lived experience of socioeconomic difference is often defined in moral, as well as economic, terms, and that tensions, often unspoken, undermine students’ senses of belonging.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801453564
SKU
V9780801453564
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About Elizabeth Lee
Elizabeth M. Lee is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University. She is coeditor of College Students’ Experiences of Power and Marginality: Sharing Spaces and Negotiating Differences.

Reviews for Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
"Class and Campus Life by Elizabeth M. Lee is a highly readable, very engaging exploration of an important but often neglected topic: the experiences of low-income, working-class students in elite academic settings. This cost of mobility is well articulated in Lee's book, which should be essential reading for sociologists studying classed experiences and education scholars interested in the mechanisms of ... Read more

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