Concerted cultivation

However, Gladwell’s description of parenting styles showed that my mother sent me into school prepared to learn and develop along my peers. She wasn’t the perfect example of concerted cultivation because she wasn’t able to be involved in everything but she most definitely integrated language use and reasoning skills in my life well before my entry into kindergarten. She did by reading me a chapter from a book every night that eventually…

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 way of raising a child gives them a sense of entitlement, and allows…

Social stratification in America, the hierarchical ranking that society assigns based off of rights and prerequisites of different positions, has caused economic inequality to sky rocket. By 2004, America’s top 1 percent of earners obtained 16 percent of the country’s total income, double their 8 percent share twenty years prior. By such a hefty economic boost for the nation’s top earners, it begs to question what the other 99 percent of earners should obtain, and how their net economic loss to…

I want to say that this paper can be great once you develop your arguments more. In terms of the introduction, I like the quote you included. It really gives the reader a perspective on what you are trying to say. An issue is that some of your sentences are too long and that will most likely detract the viewers’ attention from any points you are trying to make. I recommend making your sentences clearer and less lengthy, because the introduction is what gets the reader interested in your paper.…

The way in which families interact and contribute to social inequality can be viewed from the symbolic interactionist theory, “Which emphasizes the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction” (Giddens et al, p. 18, 2006). When you look at how relationships develop, much of dating and marriage relies on symbols, such as giving your significant other flowers, or proposing with a ring, these are all symbols. There have been major changes in patterns of family life in the…

After the the first year of her life, he quickly vanished from communication. When Kellar moved to the United States he never attempted to participate in his daughter life. Kellar on the other hand grew up in a two parent home. She grew up in concerted cultivation home because her parents mainly focused on her and her big brother. Her parents actively fosters and assesses child talents, opinions, and skills. 1st grade to 8th grade she went to public schools and high school she went to…

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…

An outlier is one who is outside the normal, and defies the odds. I believe that Julia Blackwell meets the criteria of being successful outlier. In her life so far she has been accepted into private school, found her passion, been chosen to represent the Maine council of Girl Scouts at the national convention, been accepted into Colgate College, and has been chosen to represent Maine at the United States Senate Youth Program. Julia is a senior at North Yarmouth Academy, and she is from Woolwich,…

working class. The argument was supported by findings in how social class impacted the organization of the children’s lives, the language used in the home, and the interactions between families and institutions. Middle class families used concerted cultivation in their parenting whereas poor and working class families were categorized with the accomplishment of natural growth. While I did assume the differences in each of the social classes would be fairly obvious, I do feel Lareau’s research…

From what I remember about my life as a youth, in terms of socialization, was an exposure to both concerted cultivation and the accomplishment of self-growth as explained by Annette Lareaus study of Unequal Childhoods: class, Race, and Family Life. The reason I feel I was exposed to both is because I feel my mom attempted to give my brother and I a concerted cultivation life of structure, schedule, and activities but there were road blocks that didn’t allow her to implement this teaching in…