SOCIOL 111AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Handmark, Generation Gap
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How things like gender, culture, religion, and family context change family life. Helicopter parenting prevents kids from making any decisions and from being free basically. So, when they get to college they can"t make decisions independently. Parenting out of control, by m. nelson. Professional middle class are working in higher positions. Parents are worried about they children"s future. Working class was excluding the very poor. Parents have a reason to be concerned because of a trend of increased job insecurity/instability and under-employment (aka graduates getting jobs that don"t require a college degree) All parents expect kids to go to college. College enrollments rates are up; but college graduation rates are not. Kids from more affluent backgrounds often achieve more as a result of their parents spending more on the kids" education. Distinct expectations and strategies among professional middle class parents. Parental strategies for reproducing status professional middle class .
