Concerted cultivation

Achieving success is never easy. It takes hard work, dedication, and perseverance. However, it is easier to achieve success for certain people over the others due to several crucial factors: their gender, class, and traditional culture. In the film Real Women Have Curves, the main character, Ana, faced a different fate from to her friend, Jimmy, upon graduation because of their difference in gender, economic standing, and family obligations. One’s gender, traditional culture, education, and…

Name Name of instructor Course number Date Outliers, the definition of success Gladwell on his story of triumph also known as outliers focuses on the issues that affect the society. In chapter three and four of his book, Gladwell argues that success is not determined by one's IQ but depends on the opportunities that surround someone. The purpose of Gladwell writing the two chapters on “Trouble with Geniuses” was to form principal themes from the first chapters. Gladwell uses the comparison of…

Middle Class Parent Involvement This is section will prove that parent involvement has a great impact on a child’s life, including the child’s education. Middle class parents are considered “concerted cultivation” (Lareau, 2002) when it comes to childrearing. For children living in middle class the organization of the child 's daily life consisted of organized activities. Activities that fosters the child’s ability to learn and grow and to encourage and accommodate the child’s interest such as…

A Wall Street Journal reviewer noted “the widening divide between haves-and have-nots when it comes to nurturing children and preparing them for adulthood” had become a bigger threat to social cohesion than mere income inequality and that Putnam in his book “argues that children’s access to the core institutions that foster their development-strong families, strong schools, strong communities-is increasingly separate and unequal.” Based on my reading of the book, I can strongly say to an extent…

Tupac Shakur as a 17 year-old black male before his rise to fame as a rapper, songwriter and actor is recorded expressing his ideas of social equality. He shares that instead of more reading, writing and arithmetic there should be classes about drugs, real sex education, scams, religious cults, police brutality, class apathy, racism in America, why people are hungry, he continues and states that the things that helped him are things he learned from his mother and off the streets…

The Hunger Games is a great film to tie this course all together at the end. Throughout this course we have learned many key terms and concepts that help us better understand the world and help people realize they are always part of something bigger than themselves. The Hunger Games puts everything we learned in this semester in to a perspective that we can all relate to and understand. The terms I will be using to relate sociology to The Hunger Games are the One Thing, fear-mongering,…

The effect of relative age perceived in sports does not appear to carry over to academics. Any correlation between redshirting and improved academic performance is mostly triggered by “concerted cultivation” (Lareau, 2003, as cited in Gladwell, 2008, p. 72). Parents that have the means and ability to redshirt their children are some of the most involved in ensuring a successful education for them. Generally speaking, once this condition is…

these results will be shared with alumni affinity groups and student organizations to assist with the process of diversifying the campus culture. As an active alumna, the researcher can use her leadership roles to assist the university with the cultivation of projects that will assist in moving these diversity initiatives…

For the younger kids, the only aspect I can really go into is that of the staff/child interaction. The staff only conversed with the younger of the two, the three year old. But in those interactions, they didn’t follow the ideas that we put forth in the classroom. In the example I gave earlier, of the child who went outside and climbed on and across the structures, the teacher didn’t allow the child to go across without holding her hand for safety. As we learned in class, children likely wont…

Disney exposed many boys and girls to what we had to do to live out our “happily ever afters”. The damsels in distress were all gorgeous and ignorantly eating apples from strangers or hoarding dinglehoppers until their handsome, wealthy men stepped in to marry them. Cue the end to the happy couple skipping to their white carriage, birds chirping, and the cursive, sparkling script “And they all lived Happily Ever After”. It is then that the guardians of the child will add another scene, one that…