Concerted cultivation

individual family. When analyzing my family from a sociological perspective, there were five concepts that best associates to what defines my family. These five concepts are identifying with a social class, gender roles learned within the family, concerted cultivation childhood, parents’ time with their children and cohabitation before marriage. The first concept deals with identifying with a social class. Social class is defined as “an ordering of all persons in society by degrees of economic…

I think this case also connects to the early childhood CAP group as well. Linda is certainly worried about if her child will become the potential victim of child abuse from her husband. I think Linda made the decision definitely based on the factors contributing to early child cognitive development that have been presented by the early childhood development CAP group, especially on the parents figure attachment. Linda told me no matter how many extra jobs she has to work after the divorce,…

the same god- given talents, and end up in two different worlds because of their upbringing. A child being raised by middle-class parents are given many more opportunities for success than those in working- class families. The benefits of concerted cultivation like the push for success, discipline, and individualism are priceless; however, difficulties arise for those that do not receive the opportunities that come from that style. Lareau defines two words that also explain how inequalities are…

“Transition to College”, by Annette Lareau gives readers a much deeper insight on the difficult challenges and break throughs parents face when they send their kids to college. Just by being in their childs lives, can tremendously result in the future academic student. It also stated that whatever ambitions a student chooses, shows the type of affect theparents had on the student. Students who lack academic support from their parents are more likely to not complete school or drop out. Academic…

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…

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 activities, which conduct important life skills. “This ‘cultivation’ approach results in a frenetic pace for parents, creates a cult of individualism within…

Even though school tends to encourage parents to raise their children by concerted cultivation, a philosophy of parenting in which parents tend to foster their child’s expertise by introducing multiple organized activities throughout their schedules, not everyone has access to this style of child rearing and prefers to use the accomplishment of natural growth instead, where children are free to do whatever they want during youth because adulthood is challenging. The middle-class, which seems to…

Final Exam Paper Question Two (A) The focus of this paper will be to persuade the target audience that social class compared to other social statuses impacts family life the strongest in society. The important highlighted components of the sociological framework are historical context, empirical data, and the impact of social context. The historical context of the social class impact on families in society has changed over time. In Annette Lareau’s book “Unequal Childhoods,” she states that in…

Nicole Valego Honors English 10 Summer Reading Assignment 2017 - Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Introduction “The Roseto Mystery” The Roseto Mystery follows the story of the citizens of an Italian-bred town in Pennsylvania called Roseto. Roseto was a tiny, self-sufficient world in which they kept to themselves most of the time so even the towns right next door were unaware of what was occurring in this small town.. A physician named Stewart Wolf from the University of Oklahoma came to…

leading to childhood inequality based on social class is the form of parenting style adopted. From her study, she established two forms of parenting styles, and these include concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth. From the scholar’s point of view, whereas middle-class parents prefer concerted cultivation, both poor and working-class parents practice the accomplishment of natural growth parenting. Reporting on the accomplishment of natural growth, the scholar advances that…