Summary Of Education By Lareau

She also talks about how middle class parenting differs from the other social class. The middle class parents mostly dominate the lives of their children while the working class parents cannot concentrate that much on their kids. She also brought a name for this phenomena called “Concerted Cultivation”.

All families want their children to be happy, healthy, and grow. Social classes make a difference in how parents go about meeting this goal. In Annette Lareau book, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, she promotes middle class parents as concerted cultivation. Middle class parents encourage their children’s talents, opinions, and skills. For example, engaging their children in organized activities and closely monitoring children’s experiences in school. According to Lareau, middle class children gain an emerging sense of entitlement through this pattern of converted cultivation. This causes a focus on children’s individual development. There are signs that the middle class children gain advantages from the experience of concerted cultivation. However, the working class and poor children do not gain this advantage.

Annete Laureau’s article, “Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth” and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital both touch upon the way that social class affects child-rearing practices, and how these practices essentially impact the educational success and social mobility of an individual.

Primary education, Supplemental tutoring, summer camps, secondary education, family activities, higher education, first full-time job, subsequent employment, present employment with the age of the person, present residence, second residences"(pp.336-340). He lets you look into the life of different people, some from upper-class families and some from lower class families. The reader can see for themselves that the way they are brought up, whether it is from and upper-class family or lower-class family, it affects them. It

The impact of poverty on families can affect a child's growth and development. “Poverty and the Effects on parents and Children,” Nagel states, “Families in poverty, when parents are working, are influenced by the kind of occupations in which the parents work. Kohn has found that lower-class parents look at their children's behavior with a focus on its immediate consequences and its external characteristics, whereas middle-class parents explore their children's motives and the attitudes expressed by their behavior.” Growing up with negative and disciplinary parents, it can impact a child's moral and emotional growth through life. Children grow up by the examples and actions of their progenitor, and if they have meager parents then they may grow up to be just like them. “Another study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education found that for every year a child spends in poverty, there is the chance that the child will fall behind grade level by age 18.” Pupils that live in poverty that don't get

In Annette Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, the author truly struck a nerve with her statement that “America may be the land of opportunity, but it is also a land of inequality” (Lareau, pg. 3, 2003). As an African-American child who experienced a middle-class upbringing for most of my life, I am one of many people who have experienced a mixture of both the opportunities this country provides for people, but the inequalities that follow me in my path of success in life and that of my family and peers as well. Transitioning to Lareau’s observations in her book, she states and describes two types of parenting styles embraced by middle class parents and working-class parents. Lareau argues that parents of the working-class

The book Unequal Childhoods describes observations made by Annette Lareau to shed light on the significance of social class and how it affects student’s learning. Lareau presents her observations by highlighting the two dominant ways of parenting that ultimately affect how successful students become as they transition into adulthood. These styles of parenting consist of Concerted Cultivation where parents put through kids through structured activities, and Accomplishment of Natural Growth where unrestrictive freedom and directives are exercised (20-22).

In the study Lareau conducted, it can be see that working class and poor families differ slightly in that being poor means less resources and a means of a greater struggle for the child. The similarities found explain why being lower class has it benefits in some areas then if you were middle or upper class. Now Lareau is not telling people to raise their children one way or that being rich is better because even the rich have many disadvantages their children encounter. Lareau emphasizes, “Overall, daily life for working-class and poor children is slower paced, less pressured, and less structured than for their middle- and

Regardless of social class most parents wish for their children to be happy, healthy, and successful; however, parents disagree on the best way to raise their children to be all of those things, which is when social class determines the parents’ child rearing method. Whether a child comes from a working class or middle class family affects the child’s development and socialization; and consequently the child’s future.

Reading this book shows how social class status of a child’s parents matters. One of the big issues was how it matter in school success. Chapter 1 talks about the difference between Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth. Concerted Cultivation is a middle class child rearing technique they use on a child to improve their child talents. The middle class parents use this technique to schedule activities for their child. Parents also practice language with their child. Middle class parents let their child find agreement with them. Lareau states that middle class parents also takes more consideration with authorities that are associated with their children. For example, when a parent is not comfortable with the teacher’s way of teaching, middle class parents would directly speak with that

In the ethnographic study, Lareau’s main argument is that different social classes can greatly impact the way a child will be raised. Lareau and her assistants conducted an ethnographic research of twelve families from a

This week in class the focus has been on generational poverty. There are a lot of key factors that lead to poverty. Poverty does not exist because people want it to. Poverty is a way of life for those who don’t know another way and feel that they don’t have a way out. Every day in society people turn their heads or frown up their nose at people who they see living in poverty because they think they are better than them and will not lift a hand to help them out. The big question is why do we do this? In most cases, the poverty line or clash of the classes are based on wealth and there is certainly a variation in the wealth among the population. But classism exists from the beginning of education to death.

Before critically discussing Lareau’s Unequal childhood’s paper, it is important to briefly mention a few conceptual terms in order to get the gist of what Lareau was trying to convey to her readers.

She stated that “middle-class parents [did] a lot for their children, so those children [didn’t] often develop real-life problem-solving skills at the rate of those whose parents value[d] independence more” (p. 54). As a family with four children, my husband and I were able to provide a middle-class standard of living. We’ve never experienced life in the way someone living in poverty would have to. However, as fortunate as we were, I wondered if I was doing my children any favors. Was I doing everything for them, or teaching them the independence they would need to be a successful citizen? I have spent many hours teaching my children the “basic skills,” but was I “protecting them [too much] from life’s challenges, [and] solving their own problems” (Delpit, 2012, p.

In the poem, Porirua Friday Night by Sam Hunt, there is an important idea. An important idea addressed in this poem is the importance of formal education. Porirua Friday Night is about a young teenage girl from the perspective of the man in the poem. Formal education is important to teenagers because it will help their wellbeing and help them succeed later in life.