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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

10 reviews
Annette Lareau

University of California Press, 2003

Unequal Childhoods Well Written and Well Researched
Everyone knows that socioeconomic status is related to academic success, but not many books have examined the lives of kids outside of school in detail to reveal how differences in social class are related to differences in use of language, organizing time, dealing with authorities, family disputes, and doing homework. I'm a professor in a graduate school of education, and it was important ...

Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts Of Fieldwork

1 review
Annette Lareau, Jeffrey Shultz

Westview Press, 1996

Textbook or Storybook?
This 260 page book is unique, a combination textbook and story-book. Its six main chapters are all written by different authors who seek to share their experiences of fieldwork. "All of the authors write of being beginners in one fashion or another; most were beginning a senior thesis or doctoral dissertation. They show us how individuals learned to be researchers in the process of carrying ...

Home Advantage

2 reviews
Annette Lareau

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000

Maybe a 3.5
In "Home Advantage," Annette Lareau examines the question of who gets ahead in public schooling and what causes social reproduction. Specifically, she looks to connect the social institutions of the home, the school and the occupation to see how each affects the children at a young age. To examine this question, she goes to two schools (Prescott and Colton are the aliases). Prescott consists ...

Social Class: How Does It Work?

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2008

Class differences permeate the neighborhoods, classrooms, and workplaces where we lead our daily lives. But little is known about how class really works, and its importance is often downplayed or denied. In this important new volume, leading sociologists systematically examine how social class operates in the United States today. Social Class argues against the view that we are becoming a classless society. The authors show instead the ...