Socializing Inequality. Class, Culture and Cognition in Early Childhood

Publié le 22 février 2026
Socializing Inequality. Class, Culture and Cognition in Early Childhood coordonné par Dieter Vandebroeck, Maaike Jappens et Annette Lareau :

Lien : https://www.routledge.com/Socializing-Inequality-Class-Culture-and-Cognition-in-Early-Childhood/Vandebroeck-Jappens-Lareau/p/book/9781041119586

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Résumé :
This book examines the processes through which children effectively 'inherit' their position in the social world. It asks: 
  • How does class inequality affect one of the most formative periods in human development, that is, early childhood?
  • When do differences in class background manifest themselves in children's actions and attitudes?
  • How do class divisions intersect with racial and gender inequality to shape the way that children navigate the social world?
  • When do children become aware of the fact that 'inequality' is a key feature of their lifeworld?

Bringing together original research from France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the USA, this book unravels the ways in which class inequality shapes our earliest experiences of the social world. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in class and social stratification, the sociology of childhood and family, cultural sociology, sociolinguistics, child and developmental psychology and educational science.


Sommaire :
Introduction: Studying Class in Early Childhood – A Field in its Infancy?
Dieter Vandebroeck, Maaike Jappens and Annette Lareau

PART I: Family Dynamics and the Early Transmission of Class Privilege

1. Organized Lifestyles in Childhood and Family Climate
Andreas Roaldsnes

2. Different Spheres: Children’s Worlds, Adults’ Worlds, Tara Carroll
Annette Lareau

3. Outside of Family Care: Socialization of Orphans and Transmission of Capital in the French Child Welfare System
Cyriac Gousset

4. "You’re Not my Mom!": Legitimacy of Socialization Agents and Social Belonging of Foster Children
Hélène Oehmichen

PART II: The (Pre)School Reproduction of Inequality

5. Shaping Diversity: How Preschool Market Composition Influences Social Mixing in Swedish Preschools
Andreas Alm Fjellborg, Håkan Forsberg and Jenny Waddling

6. Preserving Childhood or Moving Towards Adulthood? Patterns of Socialization and Construction of Inequalities at the Age of 5
Géraldine Bois, Gaële Henri-Panabière, Charlotte Moquet and Marianne Woollven   

7. The Transmission of International Cultural Capital in Upper-Middle-Class Families During Childhood         
Martine Court

PART III: Language, Socialisation and Symbolic Power

8. Taking the Reins: Social Class Differences in Language Socialization among Siblings
Holly Hargis

9. All Roads Lead to Male Domination? The Case of Théodore, a Young Upper-Middle-Class Child     
Fabienne Montmasson-Michel

10. The Genesis of Certitudo Sui: How Childhood Socialization Constructs Social Ease and Reserve
Frédérique Giraud, Fanny Renard and Olivier Vanhée

PART IV: Constructing Children’s Social Sense  

11. When Do Children Start to Grasp ‘Class’, ‘Status’ and ‘Inequality’? A Review of the Literature
Maaike Jappens and Dieter Vandebroeck

12. Children's Perceptions of Economic Inequality: An Analysis of 7- and 8-Year-Olds' Drawings
Marion Clerc

13. Symbolic Recycling: How Social Class Comes to Children’s Minds?
Wilfried Lignier and Julie Pagis