Annette Lareau Unequal Childhoods
NOVEMBER 2011
SOCIAL SCIENCE
First Time on Audio
Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later The second edition of Annette Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods contains the classic analysis of how social class shapes parenting and revisits the original families a decade after the original study to examine the effects of social class in the transition to adulthood.
Read by Xe Sands
Category: Social Science Running Time: 16 hrs - Unabridged Paperback: 09/20/2011 (Univ. of California Press) Territory: World English On Sale Date: 11/14/2011 Trade 9781452604718 13 Audio CDs $49.99 Library 9781452634715 13 Audio CDs $95.99 MP3 9781452654713 2 MP3-CDs $34.99 Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education and coeditor of Social Class: How Does it Work?, Education Research on Trial, and Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork. Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration and performance. From poignant young adult fiction to powerful firstperson narrative, Sands’s characterizations are rich and expressive and her narrations evocative and intimate. She has also won an AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein.
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Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children’s hectic schedules of “leisure” activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of “concerted cultivation” designed to draw out children’s talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on “the accomplishment of natural growth,” in which a child’s development unfolds spontaneously—as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America’s children. The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and AfricanAmerican families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood. MARKETING • Staple title for sociology classes • Amazon bestseller PRAISE FOR UNEQUAL CHILDHOODS
“A fascinating study.” —Malcolm Gladwell
“This is a careful and interesting investigation of life in ‘the land of opportunity’ and the ‘land of inequality.’” —Publishers Weekly “[A] sensitive, well-balanced book.” —Library Journal
“Annette Lareau has written another classic. Her deep insights about the social stratification of family life and childrearing have profound implications for understanding inequality.” —Adam Gamoran, Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ALSO AVAILABLE FROM TANTOR Dante Chinni and James Gimpel Our Patchwork Nation ISBN 13: 9781400118700
SOCIAL SCIENCE
First Time on Audio
Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later The second edition of Annette Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods contains the classic analysis of how social class shapes parenting and revisits the original families a decade after the original study to examine the effects of social class in the transition to adulthood.
Read by Xe Sands
Category: Social Science Running Time: 16 hrs - Unabridged Paperback: 09/20/2011 (Univ. of California Press) Territory: World English On Sale Date: 11/14/2011 Trade 9781452604718 13 Audio CDs $49.99 Library 9781452634715 13 Audio CDs $95.99 MP3 9781452654713 2 MP3-CDs $34.99 Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education and coeditor of Social Class: How Does it Work?, Education Research on Trial, and Journeys through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork. Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration and performance. From poignant young adult fiction to powerful firstperson narrative, Sands’s characterizations are rich and expressive and her narrations evocative and intimate. She has also won an AudioFile Earphones Award for her narration of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein.
Tantor a
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FOR MORE INFORMATION Toll Free 877.782.6867 Tantor Audio Fax 888.782.7821 2 Business Park Road www.tantor.com Old Saybrook, CT 06475
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children’s hectic schedules of “leisure” activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of “concerted cultivation” designed to draw out children’s talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on “the accomplishment of natural growth,” in which a child’s development unfolds spontaneously—as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America’s children. The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and AfricanAmerican families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood. MARKETING • Staple title for sociology classes • Amazon bestseller PRAISE FOR UNEQUAL CHILDHOODS
“A fascinating study.” —Malcolm Gladwell
“This is a careful and interesting investigation of life in ‘the land of opportunity’ and the ‘land of inequality.’” —Publishers Weekly “[A] sensitive, well-balanced book.” —Library Journal
“Annette Lareau has written another classic. Her deep insights about the social stratification of family life and childrearing have profound implications for understanding inequality.” —Adam Gamoran, Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ALSO AVAILABLE FROM TANTOR Dante Chinni and James Gimpel Our Patchwork Nation ISBN 13: 9781400118700
