Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2018

Abstract

This comment highlights how high income inequality and economic uncertainty produce new dimensions to intensive parenting amongst the middle-class. Parenting practices encourage children’sdevelopment of behaviors and values which are coveted in élite professions. Amongst the advantaged,these parenting practices encourage neo-traditional family structures as a means of coping with economic uncertainty.

Keywords

Social class; gender; parenting; inequality; uncertainty

Discipline

Family, Life Course, and Society | Inequality and Stratification

Research Areas

Sociology

Publication

Sociologica

Volume

12

Issue

3

First Page

59

Last Page

65

ISSN

1971-8853

Identifier

10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9086

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (University of Bologna)

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9086

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