Review Of Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods

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In the sociologist Annette Lareau’s monograph, Unequal Childhoods, we are shown what social stratification influences parenting and how this perplexes within itself. Lareau’s book is a profound study that examines how parenting styles differ amongst poor parents, middle class, and the working class. Lareau’s book also examines how these parenting styles ultimately shapes the child’s future, sometimes negatively and other times positively.
After viewing the short interview with Annette Lareau, I do agree with her findings. I agree with her findings not only because it was a study in which was conducted which means it was tested and the results are facts, but because it is something that I can relate to in the society. There are even films …show more content…

As Lareau mentions in her interview, concerted cultivation is the middle class parents that take an active role in fostering opportunities and activities for their children. Lareau found that in both black middle class families and white middle class families, parents were very involved in overseeing the success of their children. This included being very active in their lives, choices, and academics. Middle class children are usually enrolled in a number of dissimilar activities. Most of these activities require time for children to spend on homework and academics. And other times, they would have extracurricular obligations such as play an instrument or playing a sport. This concludes that most middle class lives were often busy. This is a very interesting and agreeable finding. This is interesting because interaction to extracurricular activities helps the mind make more neural connections in which can be used in later interactions with people. In addition, interactions with people helps individuals learn and enhance in skills mostly unconsciously in which are essential in the world such as communication and the morals and values of society. Therefore, there is a bigger benefit to joining extra curricular activities (especially that there is time and assistance in academics for those who may need it and not receive it at home) and enjoining time into learning new things and exploring the world and it’s opportunities rather than going home after school and needing extra help with homework and not having someone to assist you, or even being bored and tired of playing video games and sleeping all

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