{"product_id":"unequal-childhoods-class-race-and-family-life-9780520271425","title":"Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life","description":"Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of \"leisure\" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of \"concerted cultivation\" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on \"the accomplishment of natural growth,\" in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously--as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first edition of \u003ci\u003eUnequal Childhoods\u003c\/i\u003e was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnette Lareau\u003c\/b\u003e is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is faculty member in the Department of Sociology with a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. Lareau is the author of \u003ci\u003eHome Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1989; second edition, 2000), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSocial Class: How Does it Work?\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); and \u003ci\u003eEducation Research on Trial: Policy Reform and the Call for Scientific Rigor\u003c\/i\u003e (2009); and \u003ci\u003eJourneys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork \u003c\/i\u003e(1996).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614789964050,"sku":"9780520271425","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c92ac2f2-5bb1-4d01-bab4-aa85b19a0d87.jpg?v=1732463431","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unequal-childhoods-class-race-and-family-life-9780520271425","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}