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Social status, types of family interaction and educational styles*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
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It is A well-established fact that families vary quite widely in their educational practices. In the past twenty years a certain number of studies on socialization have revealed a clear relation between the socioeconomic status of the parents and their educational style. Kohn (1977), for example, has shown that the emphasis parents put on discipline and immediate conformity is more pronounced in lower-class groups, whereas middle class groups value more the internalization of instructions and the development of personal motivations. In the same vein, psychologists and social psychologists have observed that the ‘authoritarian’ style of parent-child relationship (consisting of strong control and weak support) prevails more often in lower-class groups than in middle class groups, the latter being more prone to exercise strong support combined with marked control in their child's education (Bronfenbrenner 1958). Family sociologists have produced quite exhaustive articles covering the literature in this field (Gecas 1979; Peterson and Rollins 1987).
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- The social construction of self-interest
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- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , November 1992 , pp. 308 - 325
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- Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1992
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