Yuchan Hu
SOC-S344-4472
Midterm Exam
Question 2: Both Annette Lareau (Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth and Jessica Calarco (I Need Help) show how daily interactions (in family/and or school) reproduce class inequalities in childhood. Using their major concepts and examples, explain how this process works. Next, discuss the consequences of such unequal interactions.
Sociologists Lareau and Calarco claims that the daily interaction of children from different social classes can cause their class inequality. In fact, such unequal daily interactions are mainly lead to class inequality in childhood and the class reproduction, which means that the children of the rich are still rich, the children of the poor are still …show more content…
Middle-class and upper-class children will get more attention and get more help from their teachers because of the positive. And then they can solve their difficulties quickly, which means that they have the superiority. In contrast, the working-class and poor children will not make problems smooth settlement.
Therefore, in the high-level parents' educational methods make the children may be more good at expressing their own ideas, thinking more active, meeting their own needs. And these children are more assertive. The most important thing is that the society approves these characteristics, so children of these parents may have better development. In other words, the middle-class and upper-class families succeed in teaching their children the skills and ideas of social identification.
Question 3: Sociologists have sought to understand the role that children play in actively constructing meanings of race and gender. Using at least two of the following readings, discuss how children create racial and gender boundaries in their interactions with peers. Next, discuss the consequences of creating such …show more content…
The isolation leads to different cultures and emerging gender inequalities. She also mentioned borderwork, which means the activities that marking and strengthening the boundaries between groups of activities. The borderwork underlines all other gender categories of potential social identities. Children maintain gender boundaries through their competition between boys and girls, transgender chase and invasions. Children maintain gender boundaries through their contests between boys and girls, transgender chase and invasions. It causes the gender inequality. In addition, children are self-segregated by gender, and only when adults intervene, they will interact across genders.
According to Van Ausdale and Feagin's discovery of how children use races in the exchange with peers, they find that children will develop racial and ethnic understanding during communicating and interact with their peers. Children understand their relationship with race and ethnicity. They will also understand the adult hierarchy and use it to master more power and control. Appropriate racial and ethnic concepts limit their performance, and the adults mark these statements as discriminatory and try to summarize their
SOC-S344-4472
Midterm Exam
Question 2: Both Annette Lareau (Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth and Jessica Calarco (I Need Help) show how daily interactions (in family/and or school) reproduce class inequalities in childhood. Using their major concepts and examples, explain how this process works. Next, discuss the consequences of such unequal interactions.
Sociologists Lareau and Calarco claims that the daily interaction of children from different social classes can cause their class inequality. In fact, such unequal daily interactions are mainly lead to class inequality in childhood and the class reproduction, which means that the children of the rich are still rich, the children of the poor are still …show more content…
Middle-class and upper-class children will get more attention and get more help from their teachers because of the positive. And then they can solve their difficulties quickly, which means that they have the superiority. In contrast, the working-class and poor children will not make problems smooth settlement.
Therefore, in the high-level parents' educational methods make the children may be more good at expressing their own ideas, thinking more active, meeting their own needs. And these children are more assertive. The most important thing is that the society approves these characteristics, so children of these parents may have better development. In other words, the middle-class and upper-class families succeed in teaching their children the skills and ideas of social identification.
Question 3: Sociologists have sought to understand the role that children play in actively constructing meanings of race and gender. Using at least two of the following readings, discuss how children create racial and gender boundaries in their interactions with peers. Next, discuss the consequences of creating such …show more content…
The isolation leads to different cultures and emerging gender inequalities. She also mentioned borderwork, which means the activities that marking and strengthening the boundaries between groups of activities. The borderwork underlines all other gender categories of potential social identities. Children maintain gender boundaries through their competition between boys and girls, transgender chase and invasions. Children maintain gender boundaries through their contests between boys and girls, transgender chase and invasions. It causes the gender inequality. In addition, children are self-segregated by gender, and only when adults intervene, they will interact across genders.
According to Van Ausdale and Feagin's discovery of how children use races in the exchange with peers, they find that children will develop racial and ethnic understanding during communicating and interact with their peers. Children understand their relationship with race and ethnicity. They will also understand the adult hierarchy and use it to master more power and control. Appropriate racial and ethnic concepts limit their performance, and the adults mark these statements as discriminatory and try to summarize their