Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lareau, Anette.

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Sociology.

Edition:

Second edition.

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:

1 Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth 1

2 Social Structure and Daily Life 14

Part I Organization of Daily Life 33

3 The Hectic Pace of Concerted Cultivation / Garrett Tallinger Tallinger, Garrett 38

4 A Child's Pace / Tyrec Taylor Taylor, Tyrec 66

5 Children's Play Is for Children / Katie Brindle Brindle, Katie 82

Part II Language Use 105

6 Developing a Child / Alexander Williams Williams, Alexander 108

7 Language as a Conduit for Social Life / Harold McAllister McAllister, Harold 134

Part III Families and Institutions 161

8 Concerted Cultivation in Organizational Spheres / Stacey MarsNotes MarsNotes, Stacey

9 Concerted Cultivation Gone Awry / Melanie Handlon Handlon, Melanie 182

10 Letting Educators Lead the Way / Wendy Driver Driver, Wendy 198

11 Beating with a Belt, Fearing "the School" / Little Billy Yanelli Yanelli, Little Billy 221

12 The Power and Limits of Social Class 233

Part iv Unequal Childhoods and Unequal Adulthoods 259

13 Class Differences in Parent' Information and Intervention in the Lives of Young Adults 263

14 Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnography and the Families' Reactions to Unequal Childhoods 312

15 Unequal Childhoods in Context: Results from a Quantitative Analysis / Annette Lareau Lareau, Annette, Elliot Weininger Weininger, Elliot, Dalton Conley Conley, Dalton, Melissa Velez Velez, Melissa 333.

ISBN:

9780520271425