Indebted: Cultural Implications and the Role of Debt as Discipline on a Public College Campus

Author

Maria Hartley, University of TennesseeFollow

Date of Award

12-2019

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Sociology

Major Professor

Jon Shefner

Committee Members

Michelle Brown, Michelle Christian, Judah Schept

Abstract

Student loan debt has quickly become a social problem that continues to affect both students and economic prospects for the future. My dissertation addresses the question of how political ideologies have informed the shift in societal engagement with public universities, while concurrently making higher education both a necessity and a problem of personal responsibility. I also examine the ways in which both debt and the current nature of public higher education have impacted student’s ability to engage in a democratic society, and how they navigate the changing arrangements in state support for public education.

Recommended Citation

Hartley, Maria, "Indebted: Cultural Implications and the Role of Debt as Discipline on a Public College Campus. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2019.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/5772