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Book SynopsisAmplified Advantage investigates the value and impact of today's small liberal arts colleges through an extended examination of a recent cohort of students attending them. It demonstrates how these colleges sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in equalizing the experience of all their students. But there is more to the book than that. Although primarily an account of life and learning at small liberal arts colleges in the US today, scholars will find much of theoretical interest underlying the account. The context of the small liberal arts college is used to unpack how class works. Unlike many other books written about class in college, Amplified Advantage is not exclusively focused on how some students fare less well than their peers, but rather how all students' strategies are affected by their past experiences and classed expectations, particularly in the context of growing inequality. Amplified Advantage draws on Bourdieu's theory of class, particularly his concepts of capitals ope
Trade ReviewHurst builds on her celebrated history of explaining how class works at college. Her newest book turns our attention to liberal arts colleges – where class plays out in predictable and unpredictable ways. -- Jessi Streib, Author of The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: A Short History of Higher Education and the Small Liberal Arts College in the US Chapter Three: Orientation: Understanding Who Goes to Small Liberal Arts Colleges and Why? Chapter Four: Agency and Constraint in the College Selection Process Chapter Five: Paying for College Chapter Six: Learning the Liberal Arts: The Curriculum Chapter Seven: Living the Liberal Arts: Campus Life Chapter Eight: Outside the College Gates Chapter Nine: Graduating (in a Recession) Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Habitus, Capitals, Game Appendix: The School to Work Study Notes References Index About the Author
