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Yemini, Miri; Maxwell, Claire; Mizrachi, Ma'ayan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
We examined the parental strategies of global middle class (GMC) parents currently living in Israel, and compared these to their local middle class (LMC) peers. Both groups of parents were focused on securing advantages for their children through education choices and practices of cultivation. The central difference between these two groups of…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, Middle Class, Peer Relationship
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Yamamoto, Yoko; Li, Jin – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Even though scholars have attempted to identify features determining high-quality preschools, little is known about parents' views about high-quality preschools. Particularly important is the understanding of immigrant parents' views about high-quality preschools in relation to their cultural and socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds. The present study…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Content Analysis, Chinese Americans, Immigrants
Kalil, Ariel; Wightman, Patrick – National Poverty Center, University of Michigan, 2010
Objectives: We aim to understand why blacks are significantly less likely than whites to perpetuate their middle class status across generations. To do so, we focus on the potentially different associations between parental job loss and youth's educational attainment in black and white middle class families. Methods: We use data from the Panel…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), African Americans, Whites, Comparative Analysis
Bauman, Dona C. – Online Submission, 2007
This purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of parents with children with disabilities towards their children and how Mexican society treats their children. Using a focus group with a translator four middle class parents were interviewed about their children with disabilities in Guadalajara, Mexico. At a later date two other parents…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Mental Retardation, Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 2000
Examined longitudinally conceptions of parental authority and ratings of parental rules and decision-making among middle- class African American adolescents and their parents. Found that nearly all subjects affirmed parents' legitimate authority to regulate and children's obligation to comply regarding oral, conventional, prudential, friendship,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Blacks
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Squires, Jane K.; Potter, LaWanda; Bricker, Diane D.; Lamorey, Suzanne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
Examined the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires with 96 low- and middle-income parents on their child from 4 to 30 months. Found that percent agreement between a professionally-administered standardized assessment and questionnaires completed by low and middle-income parents was 80% to 91% and 85% to 93%, respectively. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Low Income Groups
McAdoo, Harriette; McAdoo, John L. – 1979
This study focuses on three areas: (1) mother-child and father-child verbal and nonverbal interactions; (2) racial differences in parent-child interactions, children's self esteem and children's racial attitudes; and (3) relationships between parenting style and children's feelings of self-worth and racial preferences. Subjects were 40 black and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Discipline, Family (Sociological Unit)