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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lareau, Annette

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions.

Children.

Families.

Physical Description:

xiv, 461 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition, with an update a decade later.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

Summary:

The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class on the transition to adulthood.

AESA Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association

C. Wright Mills Award Finalist, Society for the Study of Social Problems

Sociology of Culture Section Best Book Award, American Sociological Association

William J. Goode Best Book-Length Contribution to Family Sociology Award, American Sociological Association

2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520271425

0520271424

OCLC:

722843161