Annette Lareau

Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print. 537-548 SUMMARY Lareau suggests that social class has an important impact on the cultural logic of childrearing (Page 537). She brings up the term; ‘concerted cultivation’ as a way to describe how both white and black middle-class parents raise their children. This is a type of parenting where the parents attempt to nurture their child’s talents by enrolling them in numerous age-specific organized…

In her book, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Annette Lareau argues out that the influences of social class, as well as race, result in unequal childhoods (Lareau 1). To understand this, it is necessary to infer from the book and assess the manner in which race and social class tend to shape the life of a family. The way in which a family lives can be almost entirely be predetermined by the social class and race of said family. As the scholar demonstrates, each race and social…

Throughout the human history many governments and regimes had one particular way to distribute their citizens which wasthrough the social class structures. As years have passed many aspects have changed and so has the social class structures. The social class structures consistof or refers to various aspects of an individuals or a family's place in the society. Hence, the social class consists of an individual's or a family's education level, prestige, occupation and their connections in the…

other words, she realized that children born into middle class families are more likely to be given a sense of entitlement (Lareau 2). Whether it’s used in an academic setting or in day to day interactions with authority figures, it allows children to be heard. Through reasoning and inquiry, children gain skills to “question adults and address them as relative equals” (Lareau 2). While the benefits are explicitly stated throughout this chapter, the drawbacks are illustrated in vague…

all the the presented sociologists are correct. Stratification is necessary and generally, people fit the positions they fill as Davis and Moore suggest. Nonetheless, Tumin demonstrates how inequality keeps people locked in their social class and Lareau demonstrates exactly that by explaining different parenting techniques. Society continues to give more wealth, prestige and power to the nation’s top earners and in so doing, is fostering a spike in…

parents participation in their children academic life. Indeed, what could happen is that working class and poor families “children (are) aware of their families’ often precarious financial position and of the constraints that lack of money imposes” (Lareau, 76), discouraging them to move forward in life. I remember walking in the streets of Paris with a good working class student friend of mine who used to be demoralized and afraid of repeating her parents’ past. They were both not working; the…

According to Annette Lareau and Calarco, the social class of parents has the power to shape the life chances of their children, even though Americans tend to oppose this idea (2012: 61). A study conducted by economist Tom Hertz found that forty-two percent of low-income American families remained in the same income class two generations later (Hayes 2012: 61). Economists Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder also found that class mobility has sharply declined since 1980 and can be partially…

This gives these children disadvantages to the kids whose parents can afford it. Sports can help children learn important life skills such as teamwork, working with adults, leadership, and more. It is also observed by Annette Lareau that many middle class families raise their children under concerted cultivation which is enrolling children in many activities, actively fostering their child 's skills and opinions, using reasoning and negotiations, and training the child. This…

Many people who immigrate to the United States do so because they wish to actualize their visions of fulfilling the American Dream. The commonly referred to "American Dream" is mentioned quite often in popular literature, art and speech defining the mindset that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve ultimate success through hard work and dedication (Library of Congress). Although there is a perception that America is always fair regardless of gender, class, education or traditional…

the most equal societies. This withstanding in these societies, women are not paid less than their male counterparts, access to support programs aids the urban populace, and the difference between the wealthiest and poorest individuals diminishes. Annette Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods, examines numerous family units, across an array of socio-economic statuses, to observe their unequal treatment in society (2003). From the parent-child relationship growing from urban decay…