Lareau Flashcards
What is concerted cultivation?
Ensuring talents are cultivated
What is the difference between working and middle class families?
Working class adults do not consider the concerted development of children, particularly through organized leisure activities, an essential aspect of good parenting
Not focused on concerted cultivation
For them, the crucial responsibilities of parenthood do not lie in eliciting their children’s feelings, opinions, and thoughts. Rather, they see a clear boundary
between adults and children.
What is a difference between middle and working class children (free time and opinions)?
Middle class kids: input still valued, reason with parents. And adult planned activities
Working class kids: input not considered. More control over free time
Explain how “accomplishment of natural growth” is out of sync with central institutions?
These institutions have standards And for working-class and poor families, the cultural logic of child rearing at home is out of synch.
while children whose parents adopt strategies of concerted cultivation appear to gain a sense of entitlement
While poor, middle class children gain an emerging sense of distance, distrust, and
constraint in their institutional experiences
Explain the dominant set of
cultural repertoires about how children should be raised?
Wide-spread agreement among professionals about the broad principles for
child rearing permeates our society.
A small number of experts thus
potentially shape the behavior of a large number of parents
Do working or middle classes adapt quicker to new standards?
Middle-class parents appear to shift
their behaviors in a variety of spheres more rapidly and more thoroughly than do working-class or poor parents
What is the outcome of these different philosophies (working vs middle class) and approaches to child rearing?
Quite simply, they appear to lead to the transmission of differential advantages to children
In Middle class:
- More verbal skills
- Skill differences with authority figures
- Look ppl in the eye (good for job interviews)
Working class:
- Avoid eye contact (good on street, not at job)
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How did middle-class children in this study also exhibit an emergent version of the sense of entitlement?
They acted as though they had a right to pursue their own individual preferences and to actively manage interactions in institutional settings (ex. doctor)
Ex. shifting conversations to suit their preferences
Explain how working class children exhibit a sense of restraint?
Like their parents, the children accepted the actions of persons in authority
When working-class and poor children confronted institutions, however, they generally were unable to make the rules work in their favor nor did they obtain capital for adulthood.
Explain details of her study:
third graders (middle, working class, and poor)
Interviews with mothers, then fathers
Intensively followed 12 families
What is the dilemma with this paper?
Accordingly, there are those who believe that as a white woman, I should not have
studied Black families.
– Ppl are worried research might reinforce negative stereotypes of black families
