Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life is a 2003 non-fiction book by American author Annette Lareau

Annette Lareau

Annette Lareau is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and earned her PhD in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley. She started her career at South Illinois University at Carbondale and also previously worked as a Professor of Sociology at Temple...

 based upon a study of 88 families (of which only 12 were discussed) to understand the impact of how social class

Social class

Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...

 makes a difference in family life, more specifically in children's lives. The book argues that regardless of race, social economic class will determine how children cultivate skills they will use in the future.

Reviews

• Margaret Foley, "Class Matters", "Mother's Movement Online", October, 2005.
• Harry Brighouse, "David Brooks on Annette Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods", "Crooked Timber", March 12, 2006; BW05
• Elizabeth Lower-Basch, "Review: Unequal Childhoods", "Half Changed World", May 4, 2005

See also

Concerted cultivation

Concerted cultivation

Concerted cultivation is a style of parenting that is marked by a parent's attempts to foster their child's talents through organized leisure activities. This parenting style is commonly exhibited in middle and upper class American families...

Middle class

Middle class

The middle class is any class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, the middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class....

Working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

Social class

Social class

Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...

External links

• "Unequal Childhoods", University of California Press
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• "Annette Lareau, Ph.D" University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology , from University of Pennsylvania
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• "Annette Lareau, Professor" "Department of Sociology", From University of Maryland, College Park
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• Unequal Childhoods, by Annette Lareau from "Beingnotdoing.org"

Further reading

• David R. Roediger: Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24070-4
• "Sharon Hays": Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195176018
• "Linda Stout": Bridging the Class Divide: And Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807043097
• Michael Katz
  Michael Katz
  Michael Katz is a psychologist, former Yantra Yoga instructor, author, artist, and long time student of contemporary masters of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon. He is best known as having authored the introduction and edited the popular book Dream yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal...
  
  : The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State.. (Metropolitan Books.) New York: Henry Holt, 2001. ISBN 0-8050-5208-9
• Viviana Zelizer
  Viviana Zelizer
  Viviana A. Zelizer, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, is a prominent economic sociologist who focuses on the attribution of cultural and moral meaning to the economy. A constant theme in her work is economic valuation of the sacred, as found in such contexts as life insurance...
  
  : Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children, Princeton University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-691-03459-1
• "William Corsaro": Sociology of Childhood, Pine Forge Press (2004). ISBN 0761987517 / 9780761987512