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Population Center
2002-2003 Seminar Series

SPEAKER:

Annette Lareau
Associate Professor of Sociology
Temple University

TITLE:

The Importance of Social Class in the Rhythms of Children's Daily Lives

DATE:

Friday, September 13, 2002

TIME:

12:00 Noon

PLACE:

1101 Art-Sociology
University of Maryland, College Park Campus

Annette Lareau is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Temple University. She began her career looking at social class differences in parental involvement in schooling, and is author of Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education.

More recently she did an ethnographic study of white and black families, which included intensive home observations. This book, entitled Inside Families, is forthcoming with University of California Press. In her current work, she examines time diaries of children and their parents for their leisure activities using the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Please join us for this brown bag event. For the series schedule, please refer to http://www.popcenter.umd.edu/events/fall2002.shtml