Unequal childhoods class, race, and family life

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lareau, Annette (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press [2011]
Edición:2nd ed., with an update a decade later
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.