SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concerted Cultivation
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Reading: concerted cultivation and the accomplishment of natural growth by annette lareau. Teachers, doctors and counselors strongly agree on the broad principles for promoting education in children. This development has its base on a proper parenting. Professionals have little dispute as the responsibilities of parents concerns. Parents are responsible for talking with their children and reasoning with them, developing their interests, playing an active role in their schooling and teaching them how to solve problems through negotiation. According to professionals, these skills build a dominant set of cultural repertoires about how to raise children. This set of cultural repertoires, however has changed as time goes. For instance, these cultural repertoires have changed from bottle-feeding to breast feeding, from stern approaches to warmth and empathy and from spanking to time-outs (page 139). The way professionals have shifted their recommendations about how children should be raised is strongly related with one of the principles of culture discussed during our class.
