Warmth and wealth: re-imagining social class in taxonomies of good parenting
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This paper considers the ways in which notions of competent and incompetent parenting are produced in the emerging socio-political sphere of parenting science. It critically considers the findings of one set of statistical analyses conducted on the data of a significant longitudinal study of child development. Paying close attention to the category of 'tough love' parenting, a category produced and consolidated in the examined analysis, the paper explores the ways in which parenting science displaces attention on material and economic disadvantage and privilege, and the impact this has on parenting and family life. It argues that engaging with structural inequality (wealth) has been replaced by the naming of moral and cultural conduct (warmth) as the cause and symptom of social inequality. Parenting, as this paper argues, has thus emerged as a highly significant site for the promotion of neoliberal agendas and ideas around success and aspiration.
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Mothers differently use childcare facilities according to their class.
“Although it has been shown before that mothers differently use childcare facilities according to their class (Lareau, 2000; Jensen, 2010)”
From Tightening early childcare choices – gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK (2018) · cites this paper as Jensen, 2010
The ‘Building character, building taxonomies’ section discusses class differences in reported parenting styles and parental confidence, but not mothers’ use of childcare facilities. Searches for childcare facilities, nursery or day care, and childcare found no passage addressing class differences in their use. (LLM, conf=0.74)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMigrants are predominantly analysed through an "ethnic lens" which ignores the heterogeneity of class.
“migrants are predominantly analysed through an “ethnic lens” which ignores the heterogeneity of class”
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The Abstract discusses how class and material inequality are obscured in debates about parenting, and ‘Building character, building taxonomies’ discusses classed patterns in parenting data. Neither addresses how migrants are analysed or describes an ‘ethnic lens’; searches for those terms and related migration terminology found no supporting passage. No page numbers were available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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“For instance, despite inequality research demonstrating the role of class in mothering and care (Lareau, 2000; Jensen, 2010), migrants are predominantly analysed through an “ethnic lens” which ignores the heterogeneity of class.”
Background
- Authors
- Jensen, T.
- Affiliations
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Jensen, Tracey
- Venue
- Studies in the Maternal
- Publisher
- Open Library of the Humanities
- Published
- 2010-01-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1759-0434 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2197324522
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 8.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Studies in the Maternal (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Policies and Family
- Keywords
- social class, social inequality, wealth, structural inequality, neoliberalism, child development, material disadvantage, family life, moral behavior
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