Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education - Softcover

Lareau, Annette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742501450 ISBN 13: 9780742501454

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000

Synopsis

This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.

About this title

About the Author:

Annette Lareau is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Review:

Home Advantage is already a classic in the sociology of education. It is theoretically rich and its findings are profound. It is also a model of excellence for qualitative research methods. (Adam Gamoran, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Home Advantage is a marvelous tool for teaching about both the dynamics of school-family linkages and the realities of the process of social research. The book invariably triggers spirited discussions among students, and has a lasting influence on how they think about the sociology of education and about research. (Aaron M. Pallas, professor of sociology and education, Teachers College, Columbia University)

Home Advantage is a superb empirical study of family-school relations. The nuanced analysis, especially of the dynamics of social class, has given this work the well-earned status of a classic whose insights are of lasting value. (Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School)

An important and timely book about the ways parents are able (and unable) to shape their children's educational experiences. . . . Should be read by all current and future educators . . . required reading for students of qualitative research. (American Journal of Sociology)

Home Advantage is the most compelling empirical illustration I have found of the concept of cultural capital. It is a rich book to teach, and in the stratification course in which I used it, the students considered it the best of the books they were assigned. (Doug Porpora, Department of Psychology and Sociology, Drexel University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0742501450
• ISBN 13: 9780742501454
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288