Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life

Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life / Annette Lareau.

"Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing...

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Main Author: Lareau, Annette (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Edition:Second edition, with an update a decade later.
Subjects:
Children > Social conditions.
Families > United States.
Social conflict > United States.
Class consciousness > United States.
Equality > United States.
Children.
children (people by age group)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Children > Social conditions
Class consciousness
Equality
Families
Social conflict
Soziale Ungleichheit
Kind
Familienbeziehung
United States
USA
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Concerted cultivation and the accomplishment of natural growth
  • Social structure and daily life
  • Part I. Organization of daily life. The hectic pace of concerted cultivation: Garrett Tallinger ; A child's pace: Tyrec Taylor ; Children's play is for children: Katie Brindle
  • Part II. Language use. Developing a child: Alexander Williams ; Language as a conduit for social life: Harold McAllister
  • Part III. Families and institutions. Concerted cultivation in organizational spheres: Stacey Marshall ; Concerted cultivation gone awry: Melanie Handlon ; Letting educators lead the way: Wendy Driver ; Beating with a belt, fearing "the school": Little Billy Yanelli ; The power and limits of social class
  • Part IV. Unequal childhoods and unequal adulthoods. Class differences in parents' information and intervention in the lives of young adults ; Reflections on longitudinal ethnography and the families' reactions to Unequal childhoods ; Unequal childhoods in context: results from a quantitative analysis / Annette Lareau, Elliot Weininger, Dalton Conley, and Melissa Velez
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A. Methodology: enduring dilemmas in fieldwork
  • Appendix B. Theory: understanding the work of Pierre Bourdieu
  • Appendix C. Supporting tables
  • Appendix D. Tables for the second edition.

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