literature review #4

  1. 1. Picture of author:


  4. 2. Citation: Armstrong, Elizabeth and Laura Hamilton.  Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2013. Print.

  6. 3. Summary of the reading: Paying for the Party, Elizabeth Armstrong and Laura Hamilton conduct a study in a residence hall where they discover that some students thrive and others fail, labeled as "social isolates." They were able to follow these students through their different pathways in college, the mobility pathway, the professional pathway, and the party pathway and how each can help with upwards mobility. Some of the social isolates were unsuccessful in socialization in the community because of a lack of trying but others attributed it to social or financial status.  
  7. 4. Author: Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong, are professors of sociology. Hamilton has a P.H.D in Sociology and teaches at the University of California. Armstrong, has a P.H.D from University of California-Berkeley and teaches at the University of Michigan. 

5. Key Terms / Concepts:

           Social Isolate: Individuals in a residence hall who are unable to make social connections with others 
           and get involved in the overall community (this results in low retention rates and low GPAs)
  1. Social Dynamics: The interaction between individuals within a group and/or interactions between groups as a whole 

  1. 6. Quotes:
  2. "Theoretically, more extensive Residence Life programming might have also helped the women to get to know each other better" (99).

  4. "In fact, an astonishing twenty-five women - nearly half of the floor - could be described as social isolates. We defined social isolates as those who, by the end of the year, could claim only one person on the floor (outside of a roommate) as a ‘friend’” (96).

  6. 7. Value: This book was used as the introduction of the class and it helped me understand how the difference in social classes can influence or affect a students college life and future. This book also gave me an interesting perspective on Residence Life, because it left me wondering whether the lack of an RA presence in the hall attributed to the amount of social isolates living in the community. It was very helpful for the class and some very important information for my research.

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