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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau
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Description for Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Paperback. Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, this title explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood. It focuses on the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of 'leisure' activities. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 628. Class, Race, and Family Life. 480 pages, illustrations. Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, this title explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood. It focuses on the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of 'leisure' activities. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSP1. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 30. Weight: 640.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271425
SKU
V9780520271425
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About Annette Lareau
Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is faculty member in the Department of Sociology with a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. Lareau is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education (1989; second edition, 2000), and coeditor of Social Class: How Does it Work? ... Read more
Reviews for Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
“Lareau's work is well known among sociologists, but neglected by the popular media; . . . in books like Unequal Childhoods — Lareau has been able to capture the texture of inequality in America. She's described how radically child-rearing techniques in upper-middle-class homes differ from those in working-class and poor homes, and what this means for the prospects of the kids ... Read more