SOC 1 Lecture 11: SOC1 presentation
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Lareau - social class difference in family-school relationships. Focuses in the influence of family background on children"s educational experiences. Argument- class-related cultural factors shape parents" compliance with teachers" request for parental participation in schooling. Analysis - based on study of home-school relationships of children in the first and second grades of a white working - class school and an upper - middle - class school. Research used to mainly focus on the educational outcomes. Little attention was given to the processes through which these. Studies suggest that parental behavior can be a crucial determinant of educational patterns are created and reproduced educational performance. 3 major conceptual approaches to understanding variations in levels of parental participation. Culture of poverty thesis -> lower-class culture has distincty values and forms of social organization. Suggests -> lower-class and working-class families do not value education as highly as middle-class families. Unequal levels of parental involvement in schooling back to the educational institutions themselves.
