What kind of child rearing strategies were used in your home? In the home of your peers? What does Lareau say about how do differences in child rearing strategies reproduce inequality today? Do you agree with her analysis of how child rearing strategies result in different outcomes?
- Coontz, Stephanie. 1992. “‘Leave it to Beaver’ and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’; American Families in the 1950s” in The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books.
- Lareau, Annette. 2006. “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life.” In, The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Class, Race, and Gender, edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelényi. Boulder: Westview.