SOC314H1 Chapter : SOC314 March 6th Readings (all of them)
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Example: intensive frequent communication both parents and children desire it equally. Helicopter parent- mother or father who hovers over a student of any age. Hovering often intense and welcomed by young adults. A descriptive lens: the importance of class. Privileged parents put child rearing front and center. Professional middle-class parents want both to protect their children from growing up too quickly and to push them to high achievement at an early age. Way lower/middle class and professional middle class view education is different. Working-class and middle class parents assume that higher education will prepare their children to live on their own; they are more concerned with skills that will ensure self-sufficiency than they are with passion and fun. Lower/middle class feel that they do not need to be involved in every decision about their children"s lives. No single cause for professional-middle class parenting style. Professional middle class goal- improve child"s social, cultural and economic capital.
