SOC 174 Lecture : SOC 174_Lecture Notes 11
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Lareau: families differ in childrearing practices: ethnographic study that followed a total of 12 white and black families with children in third or fourth grade, collected data via: Observations of parents and children in their homes. Observations in school classrooms: different sets of cultural repertoires: Middle-class parenting = concerted cultivation": parents see their children as a project", they seek to actively develop their talents, opinions, and skills through organized activities, reasoning and language development are important, close supervision of their experiences in school. Different views of the relationship between childhood and adulthood: differences partly the product of occupational differences between working-class and middle-class parents, working-class parents: Adult work is not liberating or self-expressive, but often deadening. One is most fully him/herself away from work, with family. Childhood is a time to be free of life"s burdens not to prepare for them: middle-class parents: Work is challenging, rewarding and intellectually stimulating.
