Social class and parental investment in children

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This essay critically reviews the literature on social class differences in parental investment in children including differences in (i) parenting practices or behavior; (ii) parenting styles, logics, and strategies; and (iii) parenting values and ideologies. The essay reveals how structural and cultural barriers contribute to creating social class differences in the ways parents interact with their children, as well as in the way they protect and promote their children's development and well-being. This essay covers some of the foundational research in the field as well as newer research which has started to question the strict social class divide in parental investment. In particular, this essay discusses recent research on the resistance to the dominant ideology of good parenting, and studies of the complex interactions between social class, race and ethnicity, and gender. This essay concludes with a discussion of future research avenues including a call for a better empirical operationalization of the concept of parental investment.
Originele taal-2Engels
TitelEmerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
SubtitelAn Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource
RedacteurenRobert A. Scott, Stephen M. Kosslyn
Plaats van productieHoboken, N.J.
UitgeverijJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
Pagina's1-14
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 2015

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