PSYC 353 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Conscious Mind, Hidden Passions, Reductionism
9 Jul 2015
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According to a fragile family study, 90 percent of couples who are living together when their child is born on plan on getting married someday. But only 15 percent of those unmarried couples who planned on being married actually did so by the time of their child"s first birthday. Laureau has found that educated class families and lower-class families do not have parenting styles that are on different ends of the same continuum. Instead, they have completely different theories and models about how to raise their kids. Concerted cultivation (educated-class): involves enrolling kids in large numbers of adult- supervised activities and driving them from place to place. Parents are deeply involved in all aspects of their children"s lives. They make concerted efforts to provide a constant stream of learning experiences. Lower class: there tends to be a much starker boundary between the adult world and the children"s world.
