Unequal Childhoods Summary

Lareau’s research in “Unequal Childhoods” is a study that is focused on parenting styles between the middle-class families and the working-class families using, interviews and observations. While following these 12 families to everything they do, she argued that social class leads to different parenting style and different life experience and outcomes for the middle-class kids and working class kids. Lareau's findings suggested, that class play a significant role in shaping parenting patterns due to differences in parents' economic and educational resources. As these resources provide the opportunity for a child to participate in expensive activities.
Conversation is a crucial factor in the parenting patterns of the middle-class, according