SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Capital, Skills For Life, Concerted Cultivation
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In the working class families, parents are busy working; children play outside and are not as involved with extracurricular activities. Children spend a lot of time with the extended family: these parents don"t consider organized leisure as essential in parenting, they children in working class have more control on their leisure. Indeed, americans are much more comfortable recognizing the power of individual initiative than recognizing the power of social class. play groups. In working class, children more relaxed and the pace of life is slower: girls more sedentary than boys. In middle class children"s activities often determined the family"s schedules. Children and adult world"s were separated: the concerted cultivation of children controls adult"s leisure time, these young sports enthusiasts and budding musicians acquire skills and dispositions that help them navigate the institutional world. They learn to think of themselves as special and as entitled to receive certain kinds of services from adults.
