Annette Patricia Lareau is a sociologist, born in 1952, working at the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of African American and European American families and is credited with coining the term concerted cultivation, describing a middle class child rearing style she found differs from the accomplishment of natural growth approach she found among parents in working class families.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountCredited with coining the term concerted cultivation, describing middle-class child-rearing practices that differ from the natural-growth approach she found among working-class families. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountHome Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education (1989) 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountUnequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003) 1 Connections
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Lareau Unequal Childhoods showed how class shapes family child-rearing logics, contrasting concerted cultivation with the accomplishment of natural growth.
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Annette Patricia Lareau (born December 28, 1952) is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.
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American sociologist
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She is also credited with the creation of the term concerted cultivation. This concept refers to middle class child rearing practices.
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Lareau is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education (1989), co-editor of Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork (1996), and author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003).
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