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bobypop

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How do the childrearing habits of middle-class and working-class families differ? How might this impact the child's choices as an adult and contribute to class reproduction?
 
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Question 2

A group of aldermen and alderwomen is discussing their city's future but want first to understand its past.
 
  They are studying historical records of residential and commercial migration patterns, immigrant clusters, and functionalities of different areas. In general, they're looking at how and why residents might have moved and settled where they did. It would be helpful if the group had a thorough understanding of __________.
  a. the Great Migration
  b. social networks
  c. urban ecology
  d. urban renewal



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Answer to Question 1

Middle-class parents follow an approach of concerted cultivation, actively fostering their children's talents and intervening on their behalf, thereby instilling a sense of entitlement. Working-class parents, by contrast, follow an approach of accomplishment of natural growth, caring for their children but leaving themto fend for themselves socially, thereby instilling a sense ofconstraint. The middle-class children's sense of entitlement will make it more likely that they push to succeedsocioeconomi cally when they are older, while the reverse is trueof the working-class children'ssense of constraint, making itmore likely that as they getolder the children will stay inthe class they were born into.The implication for class reproduction is this: Classis reproduced not only through the money you have but through the culture you practice.

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