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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lareau, Annette., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Social conditions.

Children.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed., with an update a decade later.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously-as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children. 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 in the transition to adulthood.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1. Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth

CHAPTER 2. Social Structure and Daily Life

CHAPTER 3. The Hectic Pace of Concerted Cultivation: Garrett Tallinger

CHAPTER 4. A Child's Pace: Tyrec Taylor

CHAPTER 5. Children's Play Is for Children: Katie Brindle

CHAPTER 6. Developing a Child: Alexander Williams

CHAPTER 7. Language as a Conduit for Social Life: Harold McAllister

CHAPTER 8. Concerted Cultivation in Organizational Spheres: Stacey Marshall

CHAPTER 9. Concerted Cultivation Gone Awry: Melanie Handlon

CHAPTER 10. Letting Educators Lead the Way: Wendy Driver

CHAPTER 11. Beating with a Belt, Fearing "the School": Little Billy Yanelli

CHAPTER 12. The Power and Limits of Social Class

CHAPTER 13. Class Differences in Parents' Information and Intervention in the Lives of Young Adults

CHAPTER 14. Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnography and the Families' Reactions to Unequal Childhoods

CHAPTER 15. Unequal Childhoods in Context

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

Revised Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

version papier

ISBN:

9786613278289

9781283278287

1283278286

9780520949904

0520949900

OCLC:

747412377