Coached for the Classroom: Parents’ Cultural Transmission and Children’s Reproduction of Educational Inequalities

American Sociological Review

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1015-1037

  Calarco, Jessica Mc Crory ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; culture; education; family; inequality

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CULTURAL RELATIONS; EDUCATION; EQUITY; FAMILY STRUCTURE;

EID: 84910049519     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122414546931     Document Type: Article

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