Full Description
More students today are financing college through debt, but the burdens of debt are not equally shared. The least privileged students are those most encumbered and the least able to repay. All of this has implications for those who work in academia, especially those who are themselves from less advantaged backgrounds. Warnock argues that it is difficult to reconcile the goals of facilitating upward mobility for students from similar backgrounds while being aware that the goals of many colleges and universities stand in contrast to the recruitment and support of these students. This, combined with the fact that campuses are increasingly reliant on adjunct labor, makes it difficult for the contemporary tenure-track or tenured working-class academic to reconcile his or her position in the academy.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Allison L. Hurst and Sandi K. Nenga
Part One: Research
Chapter 1: Class as a Force of Habit: The Social World Embodied in Scholarship
Sean McCloud
Chapter 2: Controlling for Class - or the Persistence of Classism in Psychology
Irene López and Olivia Legan
Chapter 3: Class, Academia, and Ontologies of Global Selfhood
Sara Appel
Chapter 4: Survival Strategies for Working-Class Women as Junior Faculty Members
Lynn Arner
Part Two: Teaching
Chapter 5: Boundary Crossing: Social Class and Race in the Classroom
Andrea Lewis
Chapter 6: Lessons Learned: How I Unintentionally Reproduce Class InequalityJessi Streib
Chapter 7: Making Class Salient in the Sociology Classroom
Melissa Quintela
Chapter 8: Witnessing Social Class in the Academy
Dwight Lang
Chapter 9: The Classroom Crucible:
Michael Svec and P.L. Thomas
Part Three: Work in the Academy
Chapter 10: Working-Class, Teaching Class and Working Class in the Academy
Krista Soria
Chapter 11: "We're All Middle Class Here": Privilege and the Denial of Class Inequality in the Canadian Professoriate
Tim Haney
Chapter 12: Narrating the Job Crisis: Self-Development or Collective Action?
Gretchen Braun
Chapter 13: Capitalizing Class: An Examination of Socioeconomic Diversity on the Contemporary Campus
Deborah M. Warnock
References
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
