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Feb 24, 2021 · This article presents two case study examples applying Lareau’s accomplishment of natural growth, introducing Sarah (pseudonyms are used throughout), a mother who attempted to engage with her daughter’s education but withdrew due to feeling undervalued by the school system, and Jenny, a mother who tried to work with school to overcome her ...
- Suzanne Wilson, Aidan Richard clive Worsley
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The accomplishment of natural-growth is one of a pair of theoretical concepts that describe the disparate logics of childrearing characteristic of American working- and middle-class parents and their role in the reproduction of class (dis)advantage (Lareau 2003).
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So, I use a gardening analogy, calling the middle-class children the product of “concerted cultivation” and the working-class children and poor children the “accomplishment of natural growth.”
The accomplishment of natural growth is commonly upheld by working-class and poor parents and focuses more on fulfilling basic needs and ensuring the safety of the children. Children spend more time with extended family and less time in organized activities.
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Professionals who work with children, such as teachers, doctors, and counselors, generally agree about how children should be raised. Of course, from time to time they may disagree on the ways standards should be enacted for an individual child or family. For example, teach-ers may disagree about whether or not parents should stop and correct a chi...
Public discourse in America typically presents the life accomplishments of a person as the result of her or his individual qualities. Songs like “I Did It My Way,” memoirs, television shows, and magazine articles, cele-brate the individual. Typically, individual outcomes are connected to individual effort and talent, such as being a “type A” person...
It is a lot of work to get young children through the day, especially for their parents. When I embarked on this study, I was interested in under-standing that labor process. In choosing to look at families, rather than just at children or parents, I hoped to capture some of the reciprocal effects of children and parents on each other. My approach ...
In a seminar I attended recently, a Black anthropologist rebuffed another scholar’s statement with the words, “Yes, but that is a white perspec-tive.” In this line of thought, membership in a particular racial or ethnic group crucially shapes a person’s intellectual trajectory. Accordingly, there are those who believe that as a white woman, I shoul...
The next chapter describes the schools that most of the children in the study attended and where we visited during the year. It also briefly dis-cusses different approaches to understanding why inequality exists. The book then proceeds by devoting a chapter per family to highlight three ways in which social class makes a difference in children’s li...
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Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of “concerted cultivation” designed to draw out children’s talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on “the accomplishment of natural growth,” in which a child’s development unfolds spontaneously—as long as basic comfort, food ...
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Working-class and poor parents engage in the accomplishment of natural growth, providing the condi-tions under which children can grow but leaving leisure activities to children them-selves. These parents also use directives rather than reasoning.
