Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the Second Edition ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. CHAPTER 1. Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Social Structure and Daily Life 14
7. Part I. Organization of Daily Life
8. CHAPTER 3. The Hectic Pace of Concerted Cultivation: Garrett Tallinger 38
9. CHAPTER 4. A Child’s Pace: Tyrec Taylor 66
10. CHAPTER 5. Children’s Play Is for Children: Katie Brindle 82
11. Part II. Language Use
12. CHAPTER 6. Developing a Child: Alexander Williams 108
13. CHAPTER 7. Language as a Conduit for Social Life: Harold McAllister 134
14. Part III. Families and Institutions
15. CHAPTER 8. Concerted Cultivation in Organizational Spheres: Stacey Marshall 165
16. CHAPTER 9. Concerted Cultivation Gone Awry: Melanie Handlon 182
17. CHAPTER 10. Letting Educators Lead the Way: Wendy Driver 198
18. CHAPTER 11. Beating with a Belt, Fearing “the School”: Little Billy Yanelli 221
19. CHAPTER 12. The Power and Limits of Social Class 233
20. Part IV. Unequal Childhoods and Unequal Adulthoods
21. CHAPTER 13. Class Differences in Parents’ Information and Intervention in the Lives of Young Adults 263
22. CHAPTER 14. Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnography and the Families’ Reactions to Unequal Childhoods 312
23. CHAPTER 15. Unequal Childhoods in Context 333
24. Afterword 342
25. Appendix A. Methodology: Enduring Dilemmas in Fieldwork 345
26. Appendix B. Theory: Understanding the Work of Pierre Bourdieu 361
27. Appendix C. Supporting Tables 365
28. Appendix D. Tables for the Second Edition 377
29. Notes 385
30. Revised Bibliography 429
31. Index 453