Annette Lareau

school, and having the opportunity to use the computer at the University of Washington. The skill of practical intelligence is usually obtained from a person’s family through the way that they raise their children (102). Some examples include Annette Lareau study of Outliers and J. Robert Oppenheimer since he was put in charge of the Manhattan Project even though, while at Cambridge, he attempted to poison his tutor. I agree. In the second chapter of Outliers,…

The article “The Effects of Attitudes on Teenage Premarital Pregnancy and its Resolution” seeks to answer the question of how the influence of attitudes and personality variables increases the probability of teenage premarital pregnancy and once the pregnancy occurs what is the resolution. In the 1980’s teenage premarital pregnancy emerged as a national concern and remains the topic of debates because it violates social norms. The amount of public assistance is a negative consequence of the…

Internalized Inequality is a normality in the public school system that divides and separates students through race and socioeconomic status. People do not think to question the disproportion that is taking place in the school system due to the lack of equal resources provided for different socioeconomic groups. The issue at hand is the academic success of a high school student and how it is influenced by their race and social-class. For the purpose of this analysis, academic success is defined…

Joanna Dreby, author of The Burden of Deportation, and Hyeyoung Kwon, author of Intersectionality in Interactions, both discuss the unique, yet different, challenges that non-White children of immigrants face in the U.S. Dreby discusses the challenges of forced separations, children’s families struggles, and the threat of deportation, while Kwon discusses the challenges of passing as American adults, shielding parents from racialized nativism, and posing like middle-class adults. In Dreby’s…

It has come to my attention that the socioeconomic status of a person plays a major role in their future, education and success. Your socioeconomic status should not determine or even play a role in your success nor education. It should not matter what financial background you came from nor who your parents are to dictate your future. Everyone should be given an equal opportunity when it comes to bettering their life and future. In Henig’s most recent article, “What is it about 20 Somethings?”,…

INTRODUCTION Education is one of the best ways to improve your financial situation and rise from poverty. Through education, you learn necessary skills for going the workforce and becoming successful in the modern world. As well, you get the opportunity to expand your mind and explore ideas and concepts different from your own. People go to school to gain a job to make money to live a good life. We all grow up with the ideas of The American Dream, the idea that anything’s possible if you work…

Current-day motherhood presents a constellation of challenges to mothers. Many people do not understand what being a mother entails. A particular blog, called Of Moms And Men, is a series of posts documenting the life of a mother of three children. This blog takes into account many of the factors that make motherhood challenging and often time demanding. Of Moms And Men provides concrete evidence that backs up a wide range of scholars’ claims about motherhood and how it is gendered and the…

The book Outliers: The Story of Success expands the idea of successful people. Through each chapter, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, explains various success stories, but he counteracts the idea that people’s achievements are based on luck. Instead, he forces readers to look beyond the individual to understand how success works and outliers are made through a variety of themes. Under the heading “The Matthew Effect,” Gladwell introduces the first chapter with a scene about Gordie Howe, a talented…

that Jesuit offered. Social location is the key theme behind this introduction to Jesuit and the families that decided to attend the school. For the students, social class was often a concept that was overlooked and lacked awareness. In fact, Annette Lareau explained in her book Class Differences in Parents’ Information and Intervention in the Lives of Young Adults, that middle class families often are unaware of their social class. As I refocus this back to my first encounter with alcohol,…

fashion. “Organized activities, established and controlled by mothers and fathers, dominate the lives of middle-class children… By making sure their children have these experiences, middle-class parents engage in a process of concerted cultivation.” (Lareau 2) For as long as I can remember, my parents regulated every single part of my life. I played soccer, lacrosse, basketball, tennis, I swam, and even did a little gymnastics. I took piano and violin lessons and had a private math tutor once I…