Family Dynamics

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American Family and Class Dynamics

Scholars have study how social class, socioeconomic status, and class positioning influence family dynamics and parenting styles, including how their approaches to media use, media at home, consumption, and placement; as we;; as their approaches to schooling and their school-home relationships.

  • Lareu (2003):
  • Lareau (1989):
  • Seiter (1993):
  • Seiter (2008):
  • Alters (2004):


Immigrant Family

Challenges, goals, mobility.

Brokering practices.

Marginality and disadvantage.

Lower status of immigrant. Lower position in society.

Segmented Assimilation and Acculturation

Assimilation to specific segments of the US society. Different acculturation styles and parent-children relationships.


Analysis and Findings

  • Social class backgrounds frame and transform individual actions and process of assimilation.
  • American culture individualism renders invisible the key role of institutions. System is not fair, and not neutral.
  • Inequality is shaping the future, opportunities, and pathways since early age.

References

Alters (2004) The family in US history and culture. In Media, home, and family / Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Diane F. Alters with Joseph G. Champ and Lee Hood. New York : Routledge.

Alters and Schofield Clark (2004) Introduction. In Media, home, and family.

Lareu (2003) Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life. Berkeley : University of California Press.

Lareau (1989) Home advantage : social class and parental intervention in elementary education. New York: Falmer Press.

Seiter (2008) Practicing at Home: Computers, Pianos, and Cutlural Capital.

Seiter (1993) Sold separately : children and parents in consumer culture. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press