SOC 101 Chapter Notes -Parenting Styles, Concerted Cultivation, Working Poor

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: J.Wilmoth

Document Summary

Middle class and working/poor families differed on 3 key dimensions. Concerted cultivation emergent sense of entitlement working/poor families. Accomplishment of natural growth emerging sense of constraint interactions with institutions the poverty line . Family of 4 (2 adults and 2 children )= ,624. People are poor because they do not work(f) Poverty rates are highest among single mother families t. Most poor people live in inner cities f. The poor pay more for goods and service than wealthier people t. Poverty among older americas has been increasing f. 52% of americans experience poverty ay same time before age 65 and receive public assiastance among americans who become poor. 50% of are no longer in poverty 1 year later. 73% experience poverty spells of less than 4 years. Represents the amount of financial assets needed to live for three months in the absence of income. Those who fail below this line are considered asset poor .