Scarritt publishes about student reactions to tuition costs

Arthur Scarritt from the Department of Sociology recently published new research in the journal "Critical Sociology" about students' attitudes in response to high tuition costs for higher education.

In the paper, titled "Learning to love accumulation by dispossession: How US university students value paying tuition and an elitist social order," Scarritt found that students beliefs about paying tuition made them accept conditions of an unequal elitist society. "Rather than the neoliberal ideology of competition enhancing quality, students embraced having their wealth extracted through tuition because they believed the paywall of tuition both protected them from competition and made degrees scarce and thus valuable," he writes in the paper's abstract.

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