Cited: Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California, 2011. Print.
Cited: Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California, 2011. Print.
Cited: Rothenberg, P., (2010). Race, Class, and Gender in the United States (8th ed.). New York, NY: Worth Publishers…
She had interest in parenting styles, racial issues, and social class. She conducted a research on parenting styles, it was called concerted cultivation vs. natural growth. She and her researchers studied over 80 families. Lareu instructed the families to pay attention to their kids. To spend time with them when they had free time. She called this strategy “the family dog.” Annette discovered that the working class parents pursed an approach called “accomplishment of natural growth.” Whereas middle class families used an approach called “concerted cultivation.” The working class family, had their children exposed mostly to the outdoors, more often you would find them playing with their friends from their neighborhood or siblings. And as for parents in the working class, they spent more time working and waiting for their transportation, they didn’t have time to spend with their children. Working class parents also tended to be more authoritarian. These kids didn’t question anyone with authority. For example, their teachers, principals, or anyone with a higher position. These children were described as quiet, mellow, and uninvolved. They called this parenting style “accomplishment of natural growth.” Furthermore, children in the middle class were completely different from the working class. Their families had more time to spend with them whereas working class didn’t. These families treated their children like “the family dog.” They were accompanied by their parents to their appointment, sport practices, and school activities. These parents made their kids go from one activity to the other. The children in the middle class families were more involved in after school activities and outside clubs. These parents adapted a strategy called “concerted cultivation.” As a result these children questioned authority more and were less quiet. Annette gives an example of this. She describes a little boy named Alex that comes from…
There are many additional components that parents provide that help to give their children more resources than others classes. The separation between class amongst the upper-class families and the middle-class families. There are three major key aspects that present a clear difference between class, cultural capital, and the field. In Lareau book “Unequal Childhoods” she studies many different family situations. In her research of middle and upper-class families, she describes how there is a cycle starting from parents to class to children’s evolvement opportunity. She argues that class, race, and families lives have everything to do with your placement.…
"Race, Ethnicity, and Parenting Styles." Points & Counterpoints: Controversial Relationship and Family Issues in the 21st Century. Los Angeles: Roxbury Company, 2003.…
While reading Ann Owen’s article “Inequality in Children’s Contexts: Income Segregation of Households With and Without Children” I became very interested in the relationship between inequality and income segregation. Owens found that among families with children income segregation is driven by an increased income inequality along with school district options. Income segregation between neighborhoods rose twenty percent from 1990 to 2010 and it was around twice as high for households that have children versus those that do not. The income of a family alone can tell us a fair amount of why the schools can be so segregated.…
Annette Lareau’s typology, “Invisible Equality,” is a study of families from various backgrounds—middle class, white, black, working class, and poor. Lareau observed differences in childrearing strategies, finding that class differences were more imperative than racial differences. She argues that childrearing techniques are one way in which class-based advantages are reproduced. The concerted cultivation model was used by middle-class parents, which involved high levels of participation in extracurricular activities. However, the working class parents geared towards what Lareau identifies as the accomplishment of natural growth model approach. This model emphasizes loving children and providing for them; moreover, giving much more leisure…
Concerted cultivation is a middle class child educational technique parent’s use on a child to improve their children’s talents. Middle class parents do this through scheduled activities. Concerted cultivated parents also practice the language of reasoning with their child. The parents believe that their children have the right to find an agreement with each parent. Middle class parents also take more consideration with authorities that are connected with their children. Children from concerted cultivation households spend much time in after school classes or programmers such as taking dance lessons or being on a football team. Parents in these families are very involved in their children’s free time, transporting them from activity to activity, which, often, some moms are called “soccer moms” for the children who play soccer. Concerted cultivation parents also emphasize negotiation, encouraging their children to question authority figures, including themselves. As a result, children from concerted cultivation homes tend to be less intimidated by authority, such as teachers, and attain a sense of “power”, believing they are “worthy of adult interest” and can “customize” their environment.…
Answer: Cultural repertoire consists of components that may influence the way a parent raises a child. Middle class child rearing, the book asserts, generally conforms to the logic of concerted cultivation, according to which parents view it as their duty to actively foster the development of their children’s potential skills and talents. By contrast, the book notes, working class and poor child rearing conforms to a logic of the accomplishment of natural growth, according to which parents assume that if they provide their children with love, feed and clothe them, and keep them safe, the children will grow and thrive spontaneously.…
Rothenberg, Paula. RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN THE UNITED STATES. 8TH. Worth Publishers, 2009. 13-20. Print.…
The main theme of this article is that family structure has an impact on inequality, specifically in terms of poverty. One piece of evidence that the authors used to support this argument that I found the most striking, is how what kind of parents a child grows up with effects that child’s life chances. The article states that “Children who grow up apart from their biological fathers score lower on standardized tests, report poorer grades and view themselves as having less academic potential that children who grow up with biological parents” (264). Even if a child grows up in a two parent household…
This worksheet is intended to help you organize your information and thoughts for the final project Results and Discussion sections.…
This paper will discuss the diverse characteristics and share the differences in having children, and how raising these children in this type of culture will impact their lives. Culture and child rearing are both vital in child growth. Culture and ethnicity have a definingresult on the child-rearing methods that families implement throughout the world. Differences such as methods of punishment, expectations regarding acceptance of everyday jobsand therange of religious instruction will differ among families.Not everyone in the world will agree how to raise their children and what is considered to be the right way and the wrong way. Although many parents believe…
Lareau started her social experiment with observing 88 families and then provided in-depth observations on 12 families (Lareau 2003). Based on the gathered observations, she argues that a parent’s class and race impact their children’s life experience and that class plays as a significant role in the way that they raise their children. She discussed 2 major groups which are the middle and upper class and then the lower and working class. The upper and middle class parent’s practice concerted cultivation while the lower and working class parent’s practice natural growth.…
Further research shows that JWB Douglas’ study supports the cultural deprivation view. He found that working class pupils scored lower on tests of ability than middle class pupils. He thinks this is because working class parents are less likely to support their children’s development through reading to them and also other educational activities at home. Bernstein reached similar conclusions as Douglas. He found that the way mothers think and choose toys for their children influence on their child’s intellectual development…
Academic performance is the priority to students as well as the teachers in any school system. Some of the socio-cultural factors which affect the students achievement are parents’ educational status (M. Khata,et al. 2011). Parent educational status is used as an indicator of Socio Economic Status (SES) to reflect the potential for social and economic resources such as household incomes that are available to students because it tends to remain the same over time ( Sirin 2005). Moreover, parenting practices are also essential in moulding the students into a successful person. The supports and encouragement the students received from their parents bring a huge positive impact on their behaviour.…