SOCB49H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8b: Concerted Cultivation
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The productive role of children in immigrant families. Investment model: first, identify understanding of children as targets of emotional and financial investment that parents make to secure their (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)(cid:859)s future success: views children as passive receivers of resources. Secondly, (in contrast) review research showing various productive contributions of children in immigrant families: academic and language help, emotion work, and financial contributions. Finally, 2 theoretical perspectives: social exchange theory, culture collectivism. Migrant: living outside of country of birth for 12 months or longer. Families, viewed as reciprocity-based self-sustaining units: members turn to each other for support: parents bear disproportionate amount of functional, emotional, and financial responsibilities, sense of obligation due to filial ties. Immigrant has significant influence on reconfiguring these roles, expectations and interactions within families. Fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)(cid:859)s produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) roles a(cid:374)d relatio(cid:374)s: productive: any effort that creates value and contributes resources. Financial, emotional, household services: contributions rely on age and gender.
