Annette Lareau

Office Address:

113 McNeil

215-898-3515

alareau@sas.upenn.edu

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News

PSC research associate Annette Lareau has co-authored Parental Challenges to Organizational Authority in an Elite School District: The Role of Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Capital in Teachers College Record. The article examines education and the socioeconomic elite in the public sector.
Annette Lareau is quoted in New York Times article about class differences and child rearing.
Annette Lareau was recently featured and interviewed in Penn Arts & Sciences Magazine (Spring/Summer 2015 edition) to discuss the consequences of childhood inequality.

Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Recent Publications

Lareau, Annette, Shani Adia Evans, and April Yee. "The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents’ Search for an Urban Kindergarten." Sociology of Education 89 (2016): 279-299. Abstract
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Lareau, Annette. "Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality." American Sociological Review 80 (2015): 1-27. Abstract
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Weininger, Elliot B., Annette Lareau, and Dalton Conley. "What Money Doesn't Buy: Class Resources and Children's Participation in Organized Extracurricular Activities." Social Forces 94 (2015): 479-503. Abstract
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Research Themes

Demography

Videos

Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality: Annette Lareau on Unequal Childhoods
Talk: Annette Lareau on Unequal Childhoods: A survey of youth across race and class." She is author of "Unequal Childhoods: Race, Class, and Family Life
Interview: Annette Lareau on Parenting Strategies and Life Outcomes