Gordon State College poverty Unequal Childhoods Book Report

Book Report

                                                             Unequal Childhoods

 

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Book:

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Edition 2.  Annette Lareau

September 20, 2011.  Univ of California Press.

Note:  Edition one is fine, but edition two gives an interesting ten year update to the children discussed in edition one that reinforces the importance of social class.

 

Grade Points:

            Posted in D2L

 

Due Dates:

            Will be posted on D2L.

 

Formatting:

The assignment must be three pages, typewritten, double-spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins, and submitted to D2L.  The paper may not exceed four pages.

 

Letter to the author:

Your paper should take the form of a letter to the author about the book.  In the letter, discuss your response to the book, addressing the following issues:

 

• Research question: What question do you think she was trying to answer in this book? Do you agree with her that it is an interesting/important question?

 

• Methodology: Do you think her methodology is appropriate for her research questions, or do you think there are some limitations?

 

• Conclusions: Do you think her conclusions are valid given the evidence she presents? Do you think her conclusions are important? Why or why not?

 

Finally, discuss the impact the book had on you personally.  Prior to reading this book, what was your experience with the children growing up in different social classes?  How much did you know about parenting and child development?  Has reading the book impacted how you view parenting? Be specific about how familiar/unfamiliar you were with it, and where your ideas about it came from.  Did the book change or confirm your beliefs.  Be specific about how it changed or confirmed your ideas.

 

IMPORTANT:

Your paper must reflect an in-depth understanding of the book.  Be sure to make sure your letter draws from specific points made in the book.  To be more blunt, make sure I am not left wondering at the end whether you have read and understood the book!  You do not need a bibliography, and you do not have room to quote extensively in this paper.  You should not quote more than one or two sentences in the whole paper.  If you include a quotation, be sure to indicate the page number of the quotation in parentheses after the quotation.  I will NOT accept papers with quotations that are not cited!

 

Adapted from:  Clifford, Elizabeth. 2010. “Reflection on Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work by Gary Alan Fine.” Assignment published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Originally published 2005 in The Sociology of Food, edited by D. A. Copelton. Washington DC:  American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org).