Readings

• Annette Lareau. 2012. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (pp 14-32). In Canvas.
• Emily Badger. 2018. The outsize hold of the word ‘welfare’ on the public imagination. Aug 6, New York Times. (there is also a link in Canvas)
• White House. 2025. Cuts to woke programs. 

Lecture pages

Some baseline knowledge for the course:

• Welfare basics
• Key concepts
• Poverty and inequality
• Structure, agency and social welfare
• From Lareau’s Unequal Childhoods’:
  • 2 schools compared
  • Lareau’s thesis (childrearing as ‘concerted cultivation’ or ‘natural growth’)
• Summing up week 1 (outline from class)

Video

• Partizane. 2012. Wealth inequality in America. (YouTube)