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Title: Building Cultural Capital: How Parenting Behaviors Among Highly Educated Parents Diverge from Less Educated Parents

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This paper expands what we know about parenting and stratification by describing the parenting behaviors that tend to vary by parental education. It elaborates on the perspectives of Bourdieu (1977), Coleman (1988), and Lareau (2002) to offer a more nuanced understanding of how parents transmit and develop their children's social and cultural capital. Analyzing both parent and child time diaries from the 2003-2007 ATUS and 1997 PSID-CDS respectively, we find that in terms of cultural capital, highly educated parents are enrolling their children in more organized activities, limiting television viewing, encouraging more reading time, and interacting more frequently with school officials and organizations relative to parents who are less educated. They also do less household work with their children. From a social capital perspective, however, better educated parents spend less time with extended family, but invest more time in parent-child meals, and spend slightly more time visiting with their children and non-family members than less educated parents.

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Authors: Thorn, Betsy; Raley, Sara

Conference Name: American Time Use Research Conference

Publisher Location: University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Data Collections: IPUMS Time Use - ATUS

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage

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