Princeton University Press
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
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- Caitlin Zaloom
- Princeton University Press
- Paperback
- 9780691217222
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- Social Science > Sociology - Marriage & Family
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
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.
Author Bio
Caitlin Zaloom is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She studies the cultural dimensions of finance, technology, and economic life.
Her latest book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, explores how the financial pressures of paying for college affect middle-class families.
Zaloom is also author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London, editor in Chief of Public Books, and co-editor of the recent volumes Think in Public and Antidemocracy in America. Zaloom’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and her work has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, NPR, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Times Higher Education.
Research Interests
Culture and economy; cities and globalization; financial markets; technology and cities; science and technology studies; social theory.
Education
- 2002Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
- 1995B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Source: NYU Institute for Public Knowledge.
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