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Annette Lareau
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 60
Citations - 17795
Annette Lareau is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social class & Cultural capital. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 58 publications receiving 16768 citations. Previous affiliations of Annette Lareau include University of Maryland, College Park & Temple University.
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Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
TL;DR: The power and limits of social class are explored in this paper, where the authors present a theory of Bourdieu's theory of the power of social structure and daily life in the organization of daily life.
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Social class differences in family-school relationships: the importance of cultural capital
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study of family-school relationships in white working-class and middle-class communities was conducted, and the results indicated that schools have standardized views of the proper role of parents in schooling and social class provides parents with unequal resources to comply with teachers' requests for parental participation.
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Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education
TL;DR: Social class and parent involvement in schooling what do teachers want from parents? separation between family and school - Colton interconnectedness between family, school - mothers and fathers - gender differences in parent involvement.
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Moments of social inclusion and exclusion race, class, and cultural capital in family-school relationships
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case study of parents' involvement with their third-grade children using interviews and classroom observations, and reveal how some black parents, deeply concemed about the historical legacy of discrimination against blacks in schooling, approach the school with open criticisms.
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Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent TheoreticalDevelopments
Michèle Lamont,Annette Lareau +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of cultural capital has been increasingly used in American sociology to study the impact of cultural reproduction on social reproduction as discussed by the authors, however, much confusion surrounds this concept and it is not clear how cultural capital is turned into profits in America.