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What’s a parent to do? Socioeconomic variation in parenting logics
20 November 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Join this event to hear Pat Hastings present a novel way to study parenting logics using computational text analysis, using hypothetical parenting advice collected via survey.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Tobias Ruttenauer
Location
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Room G0355-59 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0NU
Leading theories on parenting in the United States suggest that parenting varies widely by socioeconomic status, with middle-class parents practicing “concerted cultivation” (marked by parents’ intensive efforts to foster their children’s development) and working-class parents engaging in the “accomplishment of natural growth" (with children given more freedom to manage their own time).
While frequently inferred that these parenting practices reflect different cultural logics of parenting, such logics are inherently hard to measure.
In this seminar, Pat will present a novel way to study parenting logics using computational text analysis applied to a nationally representative survey where respondents provided parenting advice in hypothetical parenting situations. He will discuss how all parenting logics reflect some form of intensive parenting with some nuance:
- assertive vs negotiated parenting, and
- pedagogic vs pragmatic parenting.
This event will be particularly useful for researchers.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
Related links
- QSS and CLS seminar series
- Quantitative Social Science
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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Rawpixel.com via Shutterstock, via Dean Crow.
About the Speaker
Pat Hastings
Pat Hastings' research lies broadly at the intersection of inequality, stratification, and the sociology of the family. His work also draws upon and contributes to scholarship in economic sociology, religion, social demography, education, and social policy.
His recent projects have investigated family structure and parenting, income inequality and parenting, families moving to put their children in better schools, and the buffering effects of religion on happiness when people lose their jobs. Methodologically, he uses quantitative and computational methods.