Unequal Childhoods

Class, Race, and Family Life

Author: Annette Lareau
ISBN: 9780520239500

"Less than one in five Americans think 'race, gender, religion or social class are very important for getting ahead in life, ' Annette Lareau tells us in her carefully researched and clearly written new book. But as she brilliantly shows, everything from looking authority figures in the eye when you shake their hands to spending long periods in a shared space and squabbling with siblings is related to social class. This is one of the most penetrating works I have read on a topic that only grows in importance as the class gap in America widens."--Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of "The Time Bind" and "The Commercialization of Intimate Life" "Sociology at its best. In this major study, Lareau provides the tools to make sense of the frenzied middle-class obsession with their offspring's extracurricular activities; the similarities between black and white professionals; and the paths on which poor and working class kids are put by their circumstances. This book will help generations of st

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 2003

Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness, Social Science / Children's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Sociology (SOCI))