Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families.
Although family life has an important impact on children's life chances, the mechanisms through which parents transmit advantages are imperfectly understood. An ethnographic data set of white children and black children approximately 10 years old shows the effects of social class on interactions in...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 747 - 777 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
October 2002
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