subject nationality article_title name occupation
sociology american annette lareau
 annette lareau sociologist , author
annette lareau

annette lareau is a sociologist working at the university of pennsylvania .
she is a graduate of u.c. santa cruz and earned her phd in sociology from u.c. berkeley .
she started her career at southern illinois university at carbondale and also previously worked as a professor of sociology at temple university , pennsylvania from 1990 to 2005 .
she has served as a professor of sociology at the university of maryland , college park , and in 2008 joined as professor of sociology at the university of pennsylvania where she is the stanley i. sheerr professor .
during the 2005-2006 school year she moved to palo alto , california to complete a residence at the center for advanced study of behavioral sciences .
lareau has been very active with organizations such as the eastern sociological society , sociology of education journal , and the american sociological association .
lareau has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of both african-americans and european-americans .
she is also credited with the creation of the term concerted cultivation .
this concept refers to middle class child rearing practices .
she says that this differs from the parents of children in working-class families , who attribute much of their child raising tactics to the accomplishment of natural growth .
