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This is a great value for collective life, but it works against them within the individualistic, meritocratic school system. Drawing on indepth observations of black and white middleclass, workingclass, and poor families, unequal childhoods explores this. This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the united. Lareaus work is well known among sociologists, but neglected by the popular media. Ten years after the ethnographic work annette lareau undertook for her bestselling text unequal childhoods, shes retraced her steps, adding 100 pages to the second edition, out now from the university of california press. In the book she argues that there are two logics of childrearing evident in american society, each one shaped by social class distinctions. Unequal childhoods class race and family life download.
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