Parenting and inequality in insecure times. A comment to the symposium
This comment highlights how high income inequality and economic uncertainty produce new dimensions to intensive parenting amongst the middle-class. Parenting practices encourage children’sdevelopment of behaviors and values which are coveted in élite professions. Amongst the advantaged,these parenti...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2827 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4084/viewcontent/Rao_SocioLogica.pdf |
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| Institution: | Singapore Management University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This comment highlights how high income inequality and economic uncertainty produce new dimensions to intensive parenting amongst the middle-class. Parenting practices encourage children’sdevelopment of behaviors and values which are coveted in élite professions. Amongst the advantaged,these parenting practices encourage neo-traditional family structures as a means of coping with economic uncertainty. |
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