Social Class Families

This week’s reading was based upon the ideas of social stratification and how social class no matter what race you are can influence children think, behave and act. One article goes on to discuss how working class and poor children differentiate from children who are middle class. It first starts off with talking about how social class can determine the different types of parenting styles. This article discusses how working class families emphasize more on accomplishments of natural growth and little to no focus on developing children’s social talent. Another key point made in this article was the fact that working class and poor children are rarely involved in organized sports. This can influence how they are raised to think in act because in the study they did research where they spent time with kids from two different types of neighborhood one being low income and the other being children with an income of $175,000 plus. They observed how the kids acted in and outside of school and what they did during there down time. Most children who parents were focused on cultivation had activities planned for them that focused on enrichment and expanding their minds. while other kids spent a great deal of
In it allows me to reflect on my life and analyze what time of parent my parents were and what type of parent I would like to be in the future and weight he good and bad of both options because the child who grew up in the cultivation homes grew up with a sense of entitlement while the child who grew up in the natural growth home had a sense of constraint. So this may be something I would want to consider when having my own children. This will also help me reflect upon myself to see which h characteristic I feel more closely related to and try to find a solution to that