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)
Citation
RAO, Aliya Hamid.(2018). Parenting and inequality in insecure times. A comment to the symposium. Sociologica, 12(3), 59-65.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2827
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9086