Book Read Free

Unequal Childhoods

Page 59

by Annette Lareau


  U.S. Department of Education. “Academic Preparation for College in the High School Senior Class of 2003–04.” NCES 2010-169. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2010.

  ———. “Access to Post-Secondary Education for 1992 High School Graduates.” NCES 98–105, 1997. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98105.pdf. Accessed March 3, 2011.

  ———. The Condition of Education, 1995. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Educational Statistics, 1995.

  ———. The Condition of Education, 2001. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.

  ———. “Educational Aspirations.” Youth Indicators, 2005. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2005. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/youthindicators/Indicators.asp?PubPageNumber=18=18&ShowTablePage=TablesHTML/18.asp. Accessed March 1, 2011.

  ———.“Event Dropout Rates of 15-through-24-year-olds Who Dropped Out of Grades 10–12, by Family Income: October 1972 through October 2006.” Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2008. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/dropout06/figures/figure_01.asp. Accessed March 1, 2011.

  ———.“First-Generation College Students.” Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2005. Available at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005171.pdf. Accessed February 24, 2011.

  ———. “Students Whose Parents Did Not Go to College: Postsecondary Access, Persistence, and Attainment.” NCES 2001–126. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2001. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001126.pdf. Accessed February 24, 2011.

  Useem, Elizabeth L. “Student Selection into Course Sequences in Mathematics: The Impact of Parental Involvement and School Policies.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 1, 3 (1991): 231–50.

  Valdes, Guadalupe. Con Respecto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.

  Van Ausdale, Debra, and Joe Feagin. “Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children.” American Sociological Review 61, 5 (1996): 779–93.

  Van Maanen, John. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

  Vanneman, Reeve, and Lynn Weber Cannon. The American Perception of Class. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

  Vidich, Arthur J., and Joseph Bensman. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community, rev. ed. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

  Wacquant, Loïc J. D. “Negative Social Capital: State Breakdown and Social Destitution in America’s Urban Core.” Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 13, 1 (1998): 25–40.

  Waksler, Frances. Studying the Social Worlds of Children. London: Routledge-Falmer Press, 1991.

  Walker, Karen. “ ‘Always There For Me’: Friendship Patterns and Expectations among Middle- and Working-Class Men and Women.” Sociological Forum 10, 2 (1995): 273–96.

  Waller, Maureen R., and Raymond Swisher. “Fathers’ Risk Factors in Fragile Families: Implications for ‘Healthy’ Relationships and Father Involvement.” Social Problems 53, 3 (2006): 392–420.

  Warner, William Lloyd, J. O. Low, Paul S. Lunt, and Leo Srole. Yankee City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.

  Warr, Mark, and Christopher G. Ellison. “Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 106, 3 (2000): 551–78.

  Warren, Mark. “A Collaborative Approach to Ethnographic Case Study Research: The Community Organizing and School Reform Project at Harvard University.” Paper presented at a colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, October 8, 2010.

  Waters, Mary C. Black Identities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

  Weininger, Elliot B. “Class and Causation in Bourdieu.” Pp. 49–114 in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, vol. 21, edited by Jennifer M. Lehmann. Oxford, Eng.: Elsevier, 2002.

  ———. “Foundations of Bourdieu’s Class Analysis.” Pp. 82–118 in Approaches to Class Analysis, edited by Erik O. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  Weininger, Elliot, and Annette Lareau. 2002. “Children’s Participation in Organized Activities and the Gender Dynamics of the ‘Time Bind.’” Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Chicago, 2002. Published as: Lareau and Weininger. “Time, Work, and Family Life: Reconceptualizing Gendered Time Patterns through the Case of Children’s Organized Activities.” Sociological Forum 3, 23 (2008): 419–54.

  ———. “Cultivating the Religious Child.” Paper presented at American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, Nev., 2011.

  ———. “Paradoxical Pathways: An Ethnographic Extension of Kohn’s Findings on Class and Childrearing.” Journal of Marriage and Family 71, 3 (2009): 680–95.

  Weininger, Elliot, Annette Lareau, Dalton Conley, and Melissa Velez. “Concerted Cultivation and Natural Growth among American Children.” Unpublished manuscript. Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

  Weis, Lois. Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class. New York: Routledge, 2004.

  ———, ed. The Way Class Works: Readings on School, Family, and the Economy. New York: Routledge, 2008.

  Wells, Amy Stuart, and Robert L. Crain. Stepping over the Color Line: African American Students in White Suburban Schools. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

  West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

  Western, Bruce. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.

  Whitehead, Jack, and Jean McNiff. Action Research: Living Theory. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006.

  Whyte, William Foote. “On the Evolution of Street Corner Society.” Pp. 9–73 in Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork, edited by Annette Lareau and Jeffrey Shultz. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.

  ———. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum, 4th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993; orig. pub. 1943.

  Willis, Paul E. Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. Farnborough, Eng.: Saxon House, 1977.

  Wills, Eric. “Parent Trap.” Chronicle of Higher Education 51, 46 (2005): A4.

  Wolf, Diane L., ed. Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.

  Wolf, Margery. A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.

  Wright, Erik Olin. Class, Crisis, and the State. London: New Left Books, 1978.

  ———. “The Conceptual Status of Class Structure in Class Analysis.” Pp. 17–38 in Bringing Class Back In, edited by Scott G. McNall, Rhonda F. Levine, and Rick Fantasia. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991.

  ———. “Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure.” Pp. 41–72 in Reworking Class, edited by John R. Hall. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.

  ———, ed. Approaches to Class Analysis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  Wrigley, Julia. “Do Young Children Need Intellectual Stimulation? Experts’ Advice to Parents, 1900–1985.” History of Education Quarterly 29, 1 (1989): 41–75.

  ———. Other People’s Children. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

  Young, Alford A., Jr. The Minds of Marginalized Black Men. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

  Zelizer, Viviana. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

  Accomplishment of natural growth

  benefits of: in children’s autonomy and creativity

  compliance without whining or ba
dgering

  deeper kinship ties

  development of social competences with peers

  enjoyment of childlike pleasures

  limited demands on adult labor

  manage own free time

  nicer to siblings

  no complaints of boredom

  social competence

  spend more time together as a family

  definition of

  drawbacks of: does not build vocabulary

  does not comply with current standards in health care

  does not develop work-related skills

  does not increase knowledge of organizational rules

  does not train how to manipulate institutions to own advantage

  training not valued by institutions

  and fieldwork

  parent labor required for

  parents’ heartbreak over educational failures

  young adults and parental support

  financial help from parents

  in times of trouble

  time spent with families

  working-class young adults seem older than middle-class young adults

  See also Constraint, sense of; Creativity; Institutions; Kinship; Language use; Time use; Unstructured activities

  Adulthood, transition to

  college

  descriptions of

  Katie Brindle

  Wendy Driver

  Karl Greeley and Jessica Irwin (afterword)

  Melanie Handlon

  Stacey Marshall

  Harold McAllister

  Garrett Tallinger

  Tyrec Taylor

  Alexander Williams

  Billy Yanelli

  drugs

  high school, decisions about

  dropping out of

  getting a GED

  incarceration

  labor force, experience in

  networks

  parenting intervening in

  marriage

  pregnancy

  race

  violence

  harassment, police

  working-class and middle-class young adults, being “grown”

  See also College; School: high school; Work-family issues

  Adults and children’s worlds

  integration of

  separation of

  Anderson, Elijah

  Authority

  children correcting adults

  egalitarian aspects of concerted cultivation

  respect for adults

  training children for constraint

  training children for entitlement

  See also Constraint, sense of; Entitlement, sense of; Powerlessness

  Boredom

  children proclaiming

  importance of organized activities in preventing

  lack of expressions of

  parents’ boredom at kids activities

  Bourdieu, Pierre

  advantage of his model over a deficit model

  as an analysis of moments of social reproduction

  field

  habitus

  key conceptual tools

  limitations in his empirical work

  power

  privilege, transmission of

  Unequal Childhoods as an empirical application of his ideas

  Cartoon, Doonesbury

  Child care

  after-school care: Driver

  Tallinger

  Taylor

  Williams

  Childhood, conceptions of

  historical shifts

  Child rearing

  changes over time

  cultural logic of

  dominant standards of

  parents’ beliefs about

  and social class

  and transmission of advantages

  See also Accomplishment of natural growth; Concerted cultivation; Gender division of labor for adults; Parents

  Classlessness

  belief in

  critique of

  dominance in American society

  institutional settings

  College

  attending: decision up to the young adult

  disappointments about

  financial support for

  parental advice about

  transition to

  applying for

  depending on educators to help with

  parents’ involvement in

  parents’ knowledge about

  dropping out of

  not going to

  parents’ heartbreak over

  SAT scores

  Wendy Driver

  Melanie Handlon

  Stacey Marshall

  Garrett Tallinger

  Tyrec Taylor

  Alexander Williams

  and social class differences: informal knowledge about

  lack of information about

  See also Adulthood, transition to; Concerted cultivation

  Concerted cultivation

  and academic success

  benefits of: being in sync with standards of institutions

  better athletic skills than their parents had at their age

  customizing interactions with adults in institutions

  developing work-related skills

  expecting institutions to accommodate their individual needs

  experiencing a range of activities

  language development

  learning to be competitive

  musical expertise

  securing benefits for their children in institutions that they would not otherwise receive

  sense of themselves as special

  skilled at performing

  definition of

  drawbacks of

  challenges of children towards adults

  competes with school

  conflict with siblings

  dinner hour disrupted

  exhaustion

  frenetic pace

  lack of autonomous play for children

  lack of excitement for events

  overscheduled

  role confusion for children

  rudeness to parents

  siblings must go along

  dealing with hurdles

  and fieldwork

  and habitus

  in high school: enrolling in summer math class

  not defined by working-class and poor parents as part of parenting

  support of educators for this child-rearing approach

  in high school

  in young adulthood: continuation

  cost to parents

  perception of benefits

  See also Entitlement, sense of; Institutions; Language use; Organized activities; Time use

  Constraint, sense of

  development of

  See also Accomplishment of natural growth

  Creativity

  displays of

  parental indifference to

  Cultural capital

  activation does not always yield profits

  defining features of

  displays of

  possession versus activation of

  profits from

  Cultural repertoires

  class-basedn

  emphasis on reasoning

  emphasis on the development of the child

  of readers

  See also Institutions; Professional standards

  Directives. See Language use

  Discipline

  impact on field worker

  language

  parent-child conflicts

  physical threats or disciplining

  Doonesbury cartoon

  Economic resources

  birthdays as a strain on

  children’s feelings about

  lack of: broken refrigerator

  car runs intermittently

  couldn’t take desired organized activities

  impact of hiring a tutor

  makes daily life tasks more difficult

  no dental care


  no health insurance

  no phone

  shortage of art supplies

  shortage of sports equipment

  shortages of food

  space

  strain of two dollars for a field trip

  use of lay-away

  presents, lack of

  silence about

  sufficient economic resources for: ample space

  not an issue

  talk about

  See also Income; Organized activities: cost of

  Entitlement, sense of

  expectations of

  lack of

  parents’ sense of

  training for

  treating child’s opinions as important

  Ethnography. See Fieldwork; Research methodology

  Eye contact

  don’t look in eye

  look in eye

  Families

  descriptions of: Brindle

  Driver

  Greeley

  Handlon

  Irwin

  Marshall

  McAllister

  Tallingers

  Taylor

  Williams

  Yanelli

  marital status of

  See also Fieldwork; Follow-up study; Income; Inequality; Kinship; Research methodology

  Family structure. See Families: marital status of

  Fieldwork

  biography and field work

  children’s experience with the study

  emergent nature of

  entering and exiting the field

  family visits, character of

  impact of visits on families

  and race

  role of the researcher

  and personal obligations

  similarity of field notes

  stressful nature of

  Follow-up study

  description of families

  Brindle

  Driver

  Greeley

  Handlon

  Irwin

  Marshall

  McAllister

  Tallinger

  Taylor

  Williams

  Yanelli

  families’ reactions to the book

  advice

  anger

  surprise

  Brindle

  Drivern

  Handlon

  Marshall

  McAllister

  Tallinger

  Taylor

  Williams

  Yanelli

  limits of

  longitudinal ethnography

  response rate

  See also Research methodology

  Gender division of labor for adults

  parents: Handlon

  Marshall

  Tallinger

  Williams

  Yanelli

  young adults

  Gender roles for children

 

‹ Prev