Intellectual status of working-class children adopted early into upper-middle-class families

Science ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 200 (4349) ◽  
pp. 1503-1504 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Schiff ◽  
M Duyme ◽  
A Dumaret ◽  
J Stewart ◽  
S Tomkiewicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Intellectual Status ◽  
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.

Furniture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Scott
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Consumer Credit ◽  
Consumer Durables ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
National Advertising ◽  
Early Success ◽  
Consumer Durable ◽  
Middle Class Families

New furniture was the first consumer durable to be successfully diffused to a mass (middle- and working-class) market in Britain. This chapter charts how a small number of furniture retailers pioneered many of the techniques used to create British mass markets for consumer durables. The key innovator was Benjamin Drage, who devised a successful formula to sell suites of new furniture, and the consumer credit used to purchase them, to ‘Mr Everyman’, using a revolutionary national advertising campaign. Drage’s spectacular early success is shown to have inspired emulation and adaption not just by furniture retailers, but by suppliers of other consumer durables. This chapter shows how furniture retailers managed to convince millions of working-and lower-middle-class families that buying their furniture new and furnishing out of income was not only practicable but constituted the cornerstone of modern aspirational lifestyles.

Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoshana Blum-Kulka ◽  
Catherine E. Snow
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
Family Narrative ◽  
The Family ◽  
American Children ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Middle Class Families

Abstract Dinner-table conversations are contexts in which children become socialized to local cultural rules regulating storytelling and may be able to achieve autonomy in telling stories, as tellers of stories, and in the content or tale recounted. Conversations from five American and five Israeli middle-class families and five American working-class families matched on family constellation generated 33, 40, and 15 narratives, respectively. Each of the groups demonstrated a different pattern on dimensions such as who participated in telling narratives, who initi-ated narratives, and how secondary narrators participated; Israeli family narra-tives were more collaborative but with relatively little child participation, whereas American middle-class children participated more by initiating their own narratives and American working-class children narrated in response to adult elicitation. All three groups demanded fidelity to truth and coherence in the tales children told, but many more of the narratives told in Israeli families had to do with events known to all the family members, whereas American children told stories about events unfamiliar to at least some family members. (Communication)

Stay-at-Home Mothers

2020 ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Jessi Streib
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Institutional Knowledge ◽  
Class Reproduction ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
To Receive ◽  
College Educated ◽  
At Home

Women who identify as stay-at-home mothers have only one option for class reproduction: through marriage. Most college-educated professional men now marry college-educated women. Women raised with college-educated mothers tend to receive enough academic and institutional knowledge from their mothers to graduate from college, marry a college-educated professional, and reproduce their class position. Women raised without college-educated mothers tend to inherit less academic and institutional knowledge and struggle with or reject college. Wanting to become stay-at-home mothers, they marry young—but to working-class men who further their slide out of the upper-middle class.

Early talk about the past revisited: affect in working-class and middle-class children's co-narrations

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
LISA K. BURGER ◽  
PEGGY J. MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Generic Properties ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Emotion Talk ◽  
Dramatic Language ◽  
Middle Class Families

This study contributes to our understanding of sociocultural variation in children's early storytelling by comparing co-narrations produced by children and their families from two European-American communities, one working-class and one middle-class. Six children from each community were observed in their homes at 2;6 and 3;0 years of age, yielding a corpus of nearly 400 naturally-occurring co-narrations of past experience. Analyses of generic properties, content, and emotion talk revealed a complex configuration of similarities and differences. Working-class and middle-class families produced co-narrations that were similar in referential/evaluative functions and temporal structure, with a preponderance of positive content. Working-class families produced twice as many co-narrations as their middle-class counterparts, produced more negative emotion talk, and used more dramatic language for conveying negative emotional experience. These findings suggest that (1) differentiation between working-class and middle-class communities in the content of early narratives may occur primarily with respect to negative experience and (2) researchers need to go beyond emotion state terms in order to accurately represent sociocultural variation in personal storytelling.

scholarly journals How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?

2021 ◽  
pp. 000169932110520
Author(s):  
Anne Lise Ellingsæter ◽  
Ragni Hege Kitterød ◽  
Marianne Nordli Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
Childcare Time ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
The Relationship

Time intensive parenting has spread in Western countries. This study contributes to the literature on parental time use, aiming to deepen our understanding of the relationship between parental childcare time and social class. Based on time-diary data (2010–2011) from Norway, and a concept of social class that links parents’ amount and composition of economic and cultural capital, we examine the time spent by parents on childcare activities. The analysis shows that class and gender intersect: intensive motherhood, as measured by time spent on active childcare, including developmental childcare activities thought to stimulate children's skills, is practised by all mothers. A small group of mothers in the economic upper-middle class fraction spend even more time on childcare than the other mothers. The time fathers spend on active childcare is less than mothers’, and intra-class divisions are notable. Not only lower-middle class fathers, but also cultural/balanced upper-middle class fathers spend the most time on intensive fathering. Economic upper-middle and working-class fathers spend the least time on childcare. This new insight into class patterns in parents’ childcare time challenges the widespread notion of different cultural childcare logics in the middle class, compared to the working class.

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