Annette Lareau

Unequal Childhoods is a book by Annette Lareau. It looks in the lives of 12 different families to study how class impacts children and how their parents raise them. The working/poor-class and middle-class families acted as the focus of the study. In addition to economic class, she made sure to have multiple races represented as well. There were at least two Black middle-class families that she studied, and two white working/poor-class families. Race was not the only factor that she wanted…

In her book Unequal Childhoods Dr. Lareau demonstrates that child rearing differs based on the social class of the family. Through “naturalistic” observations of twelve ethnically diverse families from two schools (urban “cream puff” Lower Richmond School and suburban Swan School), the author shows how teachers and institutions support concerted cultivation which is a typical practice in the middle-class families. Concerted cultivation is defined as “development of the child through organized…

education gap between wealthy, mid-income and low income children preschool can give head start in education to poor as education is one of the predominate factors in the reproduction of inequality. According to author Annette Lareaus’ book class text reading “unequal childhoods” Lareau illustrates how children start out unequal when it comes to education. Chapter one of her book titled “Concerted Cultivation and The Accomplishment of natural Growth” discusses how parenting styles factor into…

Lareau discusses the influence of family background on children’s educational experiences and attainment, as her research found that socioeconomic status largely influences the quality and quantity of parent interaction with their children’s schooling. Lower socioeconomic status parents are generally uncomfortable interacting with teachers and administrators (Lareau, 75). As a result of this timidity and lack of educational success…

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…

develop their attitude, values, and social behaviors. Annette Lareau, a sociologist who studies family lives, developed a longitudinal study that focused on children and their families for over a ten year period. She used the participant observational method to conduct her studies. This means that she and fellow sociologists were able to observe different families’ social behaviors everyday…

This negative component interferes with the child’s family life and childhood. In “Unequal Childhoods” by Annette Lareau, she includes three main components, class, race, and family life that affect childhoods. A family’s class and race can also determine a family’s values. Although African American families do not date or marry outside their own racial and ethnic…

The book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling by R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy uses an ethnography to examine everyday interactions between parents, students, teachers and school administration in order to understand why resources seldom trickle down to a district’s racial and economic minorities (2). Lewis-McCoy observed fourth-grade classrooms in two public elementary schools within the Rolling Acres Public Schools (RAPS) – River Elementary and Cherry Elementary…

As individuals, we feel that we, people, are our own influence to our daily lives, actions, and behavior when in reality we are mistaken. Our lives, actions, behaviors, etc. are determined based on not only our society, but our social class. Social class is the status of ranking where individuals are arranged based on their wealth, power, and the materials they own. Social class can be differentiated into several different categories, but the ones commonly known are: the elite or upper class,…

computer terminal when most colleges at the time didn’t even have a computer club (50). Using this information, it seems as if Bill Gates was groomed to be destined for success. Unlike someone like Katie Brindle, one of the third graders sociologist Annette Lareau observed, who comes from a working class family where her interests and skills were seen just as personality traits and weren’t cultivated or harnessed to the point where she could have one day became a professional singer or actress…