Social reproduction and child-rearing practices: Social class, children's agency, and the summer activity gap
Social reproduction and child-rearing practices: Social class, children's agency, and the summer activity gap
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DOI：
10.1177/003804070407700301
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发表时间：
2004-07-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Phillips, M
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作者：
Chin, T;Phillips, M
这项研究有助于持续的学术辩论，即父母的资源和价值观在影响父母养育子女的做法方面的相对重要性。利用儿童暑期经历的人种学数据，作者研究了来自不同种族和社会阶层背景的家庭如何在暑假期间为孩子安排儿童保育和其他活动。作者认为，社会阶层在儿童活动的质量和数量上的差异，在很大程度上并不源于父母在帮助孩子发展或培养他们的技能和才能的愿望上的根本差异。相反，这些差异源于父母对广泛资源的不同获取，包括金钱，了解如何最好地评估和提高孩子技能的人力资本，了解如何最好地培养孩子才能的文化资本，以及了解和参与项目和活动的社会资本。作者还表明，儿童自身的价值观和气质，或“儿童资本”，强烈地影响着儿童的活动，有时弥补了父母资源的缺乏，有时阻碍了父母为孩子构建刺激暑假的努力。
This study contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate about the relative importance of parents' resources and values in influencing parents' child-rearing practices. Using ethnographic data on children's summer experiences, the authors examine how families from different ethnic and social-class backgrounds assemble child care and other activities for their children during summer vacation. The authors argue that social-class differences in the quality and quantity of children's activities do not stem largely from fundamental differences in parents' desires to help children develop or cultivate their skills and talents. Instead, these differences stem from parents' differential access to a wide range of resources, including money, the human capital to know how best to assess and improve children's skills, the cultural capital to know how best to cultivate children's talents, and the social capital to learn about and gain access to programs and activities. The authors also show that children's own values and temperaments, or "child capital," strongly influence children's activities, sometimes compensating for parents' lack of resources and sometimes impeding parents' efforts to construct stimulating summers for their children.