Unequal Childhoods : Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later,9780520271425

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Unequal Childhoods : Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later

by Lareau, Annette

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9780520271425

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0520271424

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9/20/2011

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Univ of California Pr

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Summary

The first edition of Unequal Childhoodswas 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.

Author Biography

Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvenia. She is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education and coeditor of Journeys through Ethnography, Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork; Education Research on Trial Policy Reform and the Call for Scientific Vigor and Social Class: How Does it Work?

Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth	p. 1
Social Structure and Daily Life	p. 14
Organization of Daily Life	p. 33
The Hectic Pace of Concerted Cultivation	p. 38
A Child's Pace	p. 66
Children's Play Is for Children	p. 82
Language Use	p. 105
Developing a Child	p. 108
Language as a Conduit for Social Life	p. 134
Families and Institutions	p. 161
Concerted Cultivation in Organizational Spheres
Concerted Cultivation Gone Awry	p. 182
Letting Educators Lead the Way	p. 198
Beating with a Belt, Fearing "the School"	p. 221
The Power and Limits of Social Class	p. 233
Unequal Childhoods and Unequal Adulthoods	p. 259
Class Differences in Parent' Information and Intervention in the Lives of Young Adults	p. 263
Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnography and the Families' Reactions to Unequal Childhoods	p. 312
Unequal Childhoods in Context: Results from a Quantitative Analysis	p. 333
Afterword	p. 342
Methodology: Enduring Dilemmas in Fieldwork	p. 345
Theory: Understanding the Work of Pierre Bourdieu	p. 361
Supporting Tables	p. 365
Tables for the Second Edition	p. 377
Notes	p. 385
Revised Bibliography	p. 429
Index	p. 453
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