TY - JOUR
T1 - What money doesn't buy
T2 - Class resources and children's participation in organized extracurricular activities
AU - Weininger, Elliot B.
AU - Lareau, Annette
AU - Conley, Dalton
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2015.
PY - 2015/12
Y1 - 2015/12
N2 - Recent research suggests that participation in organized extracurricular activities by children and adolescents can have educational and occupational payoffs. This research also establishes that participation is strongly associated with social class. However, debate has ensued-primarily among qualitative researchers-over whether the association between class and activities stems exclusively from inequalities in objective resources and constraints or whether differing cultural orientations have a role. We address this debate using a nationally representative sample of children's time diaries, merged with extensive information on their families, to model participation in, and expenditures on, organized activities. While we cannot directly observe cultural orientations, we account for a substantially wider array of resources and constraints than previous studies. We find that, above and beyond these factors, maternal education has a consistently large effect on the outcomes we study. We discuss the plausibility of a cultural interpretation of this result, as well as alternative interpretations.
AB - Recent research suggests that participation in organized extracurricular activities by children and adolescents can have educational and occupational payoffs. This research also establishes that participation is strongly associated with social class. However, debate has ensued-primarily among qualitative researchers-over whether the association between class and activities stems exclusively from inequalities in objective resources and constraints or whether differing cultural orientations have a role. We address this debate using a nationally representative sample of children's time diaries, merged with extensive information on their families, to model participation in, and expenditures on, organized activities. While we cannot directly observe cultural orientations, we account for a substantially wider array of resources and constraints than previous studies. We find that, above and beyond these factors, maternal education has a consistently large effect on the outcomes we study. We discuss the plausibility of a cultural interpretation of this result, as well as alternative interpretations.
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U2 - 10.1093/sf/sov071
DO - 10.1093/sf/sov071
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983135343
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 94
SP - 479
EP - 503
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 2
ER -