SOCL 2505 Study Guide - Abusive Power And Control, Social Class, Diana Baumrind
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Baby boom: baby bust - proportion of american families with children has dropped to. 46: baby boom - almost 60% of families had children under 18. With so few children it is important for parents to raise them to be productive adults. This is bad in the long run bc there is a big population of old people. There are less younger people to support the older. Love, nurturing, and care to develop sense of trust: source of emotional support and control where they are teaching them. Major source of primary socialization: socialization is process where children learn the rules and order of society and its expectations. Authoritative: high levels of emotional support and inductive control. Permissive: some support with low or no control. Authoritarian: low emotional support and coercive control. Baumrind"s study more likely to apply to middle class whites. Idea is that african american families are more likely to use physical punishment than white families.
