SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 57) sociology • history 4c--Uses original sepia image. Grigsby Sketch #1 11/12/08 PMS 5265C / PMS 123C College Life through the Eyes of Stu dents COLLEGE LIFE THROuGH THE EyES OF STuDENTS Mary Grigsby Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations. America’s Economic Moralists A History of Rival Ethics and Economics AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MORALISTS A History of Rival Ethics and Economics Donald E. Frey Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present. The struggles and achievements of today’s college students are Mar y Grigsby thrown into stark relief in this fascinating account of how such students make meaning of their lives. Author Mary Grigsby uses the voices of students themselves to discuss how they view, adjust to, and participate in the college student culture of a large midwestern university and to explore what they think of their educational experiences. Topics include a look at a typical day on campus, student subcultures and the lifestyles they engender, whether college life conforms to the images and scenarios of popular culture, and student approaches to making it through college. Going to college has become the major coming-of-age experience for many people in the United States, and Mary Grigsby has provided a compelling, readable, and up-to-date account of this formative period. “Too many of us in higher education ‘guess’ at the needs and desires of the students we serve. This book spells all this out in well-written, well-researched form.” — Mary Chayko, author of Portable Communities:The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness Mary Grigsby is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Buying Time and Getting By:The Voluntary Simplicity Movement, also published by SUNY Press. MAy • 240 pp $24.95 pb 978-1-4384-2620-4 $74.50 hc 978-1-4384-2619-8 Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other morality is relational and defines economic ethics in terms of behaviors mandated by human connectedness. America’s Economic Moralists shows how each morality has been composed of an ethical outlook paired with a compatible economic theory, each supporting the other. Donald E. Frey adopts a multidisciplinary approach, not only drawing upon historical economic thought, American religious thought, and ethics, but also finding threads of economic morality in novels, government policies, and popular writings. He uses the history of these two supported yet very different views to explain the culture of excess that permeates the morality of today’s economic landscape. Donald E. Frey Donald E. Frey is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University and the author of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Education: An Economic Analysis. FEBRuARy • 256 pp $75.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-9351-9 e directtext e 57 www.sunypress.edu dt P http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61754 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61811
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