scholarly journals Buffered mobility: parenting strategies of religious Jewish global middle class families

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Maayan Mizrachi ◽  
Claire Maxwell ◽  
Miri Yemini
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Global Middle Class ◽  
Middle Class Families

Global Middle Class Families

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Claire Maxwell ◽  
Miri Yemini ◽  
Katrine Mygind Bach
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Global Middle Class ◽  
Middle Class Families

More than one way to grow up: An interview with Annette Lareau

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Natural Growth ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Concerted Cultivation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Middle Class Families

Kappan editor Rafael Heller interviews Annette Lareau about her research into different experiences of childhood and family life. In her observations of families of different social classes, she learned that upper-middle-class families approach parenting as an act of “concerted cultivation” requiring ongoing attention, making them more likely to become active participants in their children’s education. Working-class and poor parents, in contrast, focus on “natural growth” and are more likely to defer to teachers’ expertise. Lareau contends that both parenting strategies have advantages and disadvantages.

Parenting styles and the development of the categorical self: A longitudinal study on mirror self-recognition in Cameroonian Nso and German families

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 496-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Keller ◽  
Joscha Kärtner ◽  
Joern Borke ◽  
Relindis Yovsi ◽  
Astrid Kleis
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Middle Class Families

This prospective study contributes to the understanding of the development of self-conceptions in cultural context. We examined the influence of maternal contingent responsiveness towards their 3-month-old infants on toddlers’ self-recognition at the age of 18 to 20 months. We contrasted two samples that can be expected to differ with respect to contingent responsiveness as a parenting style: German middle-class families and Cameroonian Nso farmers. As hypothesized, German mothers reacted more contingently than Nso mothers. Furthermore, German toddlers recognized themselves more often than Nso toddlers. Finally, we found that the level of contingent responsiveness was one of the mechanisms that accounted for mirror self-recognition. The results are discussed with respect to different cultural emphases on parenting strategies.

Socialization environments of Chinese and Euro-American middle-class babies: Parenting behaviors, verbal discourses and ethnotheories

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Keller ◽  
Monika Abels ◽  
Jörn Borke ◽  
Bettina Lamm ◽  
Yanjie Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Chinese Parents ◽  
Parental Ethnotheories ◽  
Middle Class Families

Children's socialization environments reflect cultural models of parenting. In particular, Euro-American and Chinese families have been described as following different socialization scripts. The present study assesses parenting behaviors as well as parenting ethnotheories with respect to three-month-old babies in middle-class families in Los Angeles and Beijing. Euro-American parents' behaviors towards their children, as well as their parental ethnotheories are assumed to express the cultural model of autonomy; whereas Chinese parents' socialization strategies are assumed to be shaped by the cultural model of relatedness. The results reveal that Euro-American and Chinese mothers embody different cultural models in their verbal parenting behaviors and verbalized parenting strategies. However, the differences are not consistent and there are no differences with respect to non-verbal parenting behaviors. The results are discussed as illustrating the complexity of cultural models of parenting, where cultural messages are expressed differently in different domains.

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