Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty

Silliman, Ben; Skolnick, Arlene

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“…Fourth, little is known about the degree to which children adopt and enact their parents' beliefs. Sociologists of the family have long stressed the importance of a more dynamic model of parent-child interaction (Skolnick 1991), but empirical research has been slow to emerge (but see Hess and Handel 1974). Ethnographers' efforts to document children's agency have provided vivid but highly circumscribed portraits (Shehan 1999;Waksler 1991), but most of the case studies look at only one social class or one ethnic group.…”

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Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families

Lareau

2002

Am Sociol Rev

198

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Although family life has an important impact on children's life chances, the mechanisms through which parents transmit advantages are imperfectly understood. An ethnographic data set of white children and black children approximately 10 years old shows the effects of social class on interactions inside the home. Middle-class parents engage in concerted cultivation by attempting to foster children's talents through organized leisure activities and extensive reasoning. Working-class and poor parents engage in the accomplishment of natural growth, providing the conditions under which children can grow but leaving leisure activities to children themselves. These parents also use directives rather than reasoning. Middle-class children, both white and black, gain an emerging sense of entitlement from their family life. Race had much less impact than social class. Also, differences in a cultural logic of childrearing gave parents and their children differential resources to draw on in their interactions with professionals and other adults outside the home. Middle-class children gained individually insignificant but cumulatively important advantages. Working-class and poor children did not display the same sense of entitlement or advantages. Some areas of family life appeared exempt from the effects of social class, however.

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Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families

Lareau

2002

Am Sociol Rev

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“…The democratisation of personhood means that people claim a right to be heard in personal and social relationships. Anderson (1980), Finch (1989) and Skolnick (1991) all agree that parent-child relationships are now subject to change and negotiation. Finch (1989) argues that family-obligations between parents and children are contingent upon material circumstances and the quality of relationships.…”

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Homosexuality and the Family

2020

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Chapter 1 Lesbians and Gays and the FamilyChapter 6 Families, Identities and Postmodernity Individuals are Active Strategists in the Production of Postmodern Identities Family Relationships are Constructed through Discourses and Social Practices Identities and Relationships are Constructed within Cultural Contexts and Discourse Beyond the Family Recommendations for Future ResearchChapter 2 has explored the methodology, methods of investigation to be used in the present research and data analysis. It concludes that etiological and structural accounts of lesbians and gays and their families are too deterministic and limit the scope of the research. Rather, I shall employ a qualitative approach based in grounded theory to analyse the social construction of identities and relationships between lesbians and gays and their immediate families. The methods by which the data was collected and analysed were also examined. The findings generated from this approach will be presented in Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

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“…The fact that this cohort slightly predates the "baby boom" generation means that it has generally experienced disjunction between the world of its rearing and the world of its young adulthood. In the area of marriage and family, the world of its rearing was certainly conservative and traditional, WOMEN'S UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEIR DIVORCES 205 stressing the importance of avoiding divorce and of performing the conventional roles of providers (for men) and of wives and mothers (for women; see Coontz, 1992;Skolnick, 1991). However, legal restrictions and constraints on divorce were loosened in the period of this cohort's young adulthood, coinciding with continually rising divorce rates until about 1988, when they plateaued (Rice, 1994;Thornton, 1989).…”

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