Concerted cultivation

midwestern school system. Three major themes I will focus on are researcher Annette Laureau’s “concerted cultivation” child rearing strategy and how it affects children’s success, the disparity in the ability of students of different races to acquire access to resources, and how the engagement of poor and middle- class parents impacts their children’s education. One of McCoy’s main focuses is on “concerted cultivation”…

In this reaction paper, I will be responding, summarizing, and criticizing three particular readings from the second unit of this specific sociology course. The following readings, in which I will be reacting to, include “Invisible Inequality”, “Family, Race, and Poverty”, and “Why won’t African-Americans get (and stay) married? Why should they?” In the reading, “Invisible Inequality” the author compared middle, working and “poor” government assisted social classes. The author indicated the…

Concerted cultivation is a term associated with the middle-class; this is how the parents are choosing to raise their children. It involves organized activities, taking adult instruction and critiques, and develops a sense of entitlement within these young children…

Acres Public Schools (RAPS) – River Elementary and Cherry Elementary. The study used in-depth interviews with parents, children, teachers, community members, and school administrators (14). In this paper, I will focus on three major concepts: concerted cultivation, parental engagement and the colorblind ideology. One…

advisor. According to Gladwell, concerted cultivation is defined as, “It's an attempt to actively "foster and assess a child's talents, opinions, and skills"(Gladwell 104). The goal is to help the child express themselves, and learn tools that will be helpful later in life. A more detailed definition of concerted cultivation is seen when Gladwell writes, “Lareau stresses that one style isn't morally better than the other…But in practical terms, concerted cultivation has enormous advantages. The…

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…

their selves. Annette Lareau appropriately say that, as children growing up in spite of where you came from, you are exposed to or parents basically practice, one of two types of child rearing or raising, the accomplishment of natural growth or concerted…

Annette Lareau is a sociologist, who currently works at the University of Pennsylvania. Lareau received her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she earned her masters at the University of California, Berkeley and went on to earn her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. Lareau’s career began at the Southern Illinois University, since then she has worked at many different universities. Lareau has played in active role in many organizations, these…

use of language and the impact on the Williams and the McAllister family and specially on their children’s lives and future endeavors. Concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth are the two different forms of parenting styles that develop from the variating lifestyles of the middle-class and working-class family dynamic. The concerted cultivation style of parenting developments this sense of entitlement or individual importance, and that their opinions matter which can be used…

Harold McAllister comes from a lower income family. Lives in an African American public housing project with a big family consisting of his mom, sister, cousins, common-law husband etc. His mom cares about his activities but doesn’t push him to do anything. They are economically strained and often go day to day with living on assistance and food stamps. Essentials are scarce enough to the point where the kids have to ask before they eat something. They go without many “standards” such as dental…