Owned

Welcome to the companion page for our fourth edited volume of TSP content with W. W. Norton & Company! Below you will find links to free web content which illustrates concepts from the volume’s discussion guides at the end of each chapter. For more information, or to order the book, check out W. W. Norton’s page here.

TSP Tie-Ins

Objective Debt, Subjective Inequalities

• Randy Hodson, Rachel Dwyer, and Lisa Nielson. 2014. “Credit Card Blues: The Middle Class and the Hidden Costs of Easy Credit.” The Sociological Quarterly
• Karen McCormack. 2014. “Credit and Credibility: Homeownership and Identity Management in the Midst of the Foreclosure Crisis” The Sociological Quarterly
• Francesca Polletta and Zaibu Tufail. 2014. “The Moral Obligations of Some Debts.” Sociological Forum

Deeper in Debt

• Sociological Images on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act
• Cyborgology on “Bondsy and the Modern Myth of Barter”
• Girl w/Pen on male college dropouts
• Scholars Strategy Network on homelessness and housing instability among college students
• Office Hours with Lane Kenworthy
• SSN on political views of the wealthy

Discussion Guide

• “Too Poor to Go Broke”
• Sociological Images on student debt
• Office Hours with Robert Sampson (neighborhood)
• NPR’s Guilty and Charged

Group Activities

• David Schalliol’s website
• Office Hours with David Schalliol
• Genograms