How long does it take to read Unequal Childhoods?
Annette Lareau
Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau takes about 6 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 343 pages, about 94,325 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously--as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children.
Subjects: Kind, Families, Kinderen, Conditions sociales, Children, Sociale klassen
