Class Contingencies in Networks of Care for School-Aged Children

摘要: This paper looks deeply at the manifest ways that working parents construct networks to help them care for their school-aged children. It explores how class contingencies shape resources available and how, in turn, people, given a particular constellation of resources, dynamically call upon networks. Anchors consider variety issues constructing networks, including shared child rearing values, kinship status, convenience, expertise. The larger study from which these findings are drawn, based metropolitan area Northern California, comparatively connections between giving, kinship, contingencies. approaches each network as case study, identifying studying four cases across economic spectrum: class, middle professional upper class. Through comparisons it identifies middle-class unique rather than normative. study’s forty interviews include all people named by anchors involved giving direct children or support advice parents.