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The Resource The pecking order : a bold new look at how family and society determine who we become, Dalton Conley
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- Summary
- We want to think of the family as a haven, a sheltered port from the maelstrom of social forces that rip through our lives. Within the family, we like to think, everyone starts out on equal footing. And yet we see around us evidence that siblings all too often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education. We think these are aberrant cases - the president and the drug addict, the professor and the convict. Surely in most families, in our families, all children will succeed equally, and when they don't, we turn to one-dimensional answers to explain the discrepancy - birth order, for instance, or gender. In this groundbreaking book, Dalton Conley shows us that inequality in families is not the exception but the norm. More than half of all income inequality in this country occurs not between families but within families. Children who grow up in the same house can - and frequently do - wind up on opposite sides of the class divide. In fact, the family itself is where much inequality is fostered and developed. In each family, there exists a pecking order among siblings, a status hierarchy. This pecking order is not necessarily determined by the natural abilities of each individual, and not even by the intentions or will of the parents. It is determined by the larger social forces that envelop the family: gender expectations, the economic cost of education, divorce, early loss of a parent, geographic mobility, religious and sexual orientation, trauma, and even arbitrary factors such as luck and accidents. Conley explores each of these topics, giving us a richly nuanced understanding that transforms the way we should look at the family as an institution of care, support, and comfort. Drawing from the U.S. Census, from the General Social Survey conducted by the University of Chicago over the last thirty years, and from a landmark study that was launched in 1968 by the University of Michigan and that has been following five thousand families, Conley has irrefutable empirical evidence backing up his assertions. Enriched by countless anecdotes and stories garnered through years of interviews, this is a book that will forever alter our idea of family
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Note
- Originally published in 2004
- Contents
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- Inequality starts at home: an introduction to the pecking order
- Butterflies in Bialystok, meteors in Manila: the nature-nurture red herring
- Love is a pie: birth order and number of siblings
- Death, desertion, divorce: when bad things happen to good families
- Movin' on up, movin' on out: mobility and sibling differences
- Legacies and role models, fat and skin: gender dynamics in the family
- Random acts of kindness (and cruelty): outside influences on sibling success
- From tribes to markets: conclusions, implications, and insinuations
- About the pecking order: a technical appendix
- Isbn
- 9780375713811
- Label
- The pecking order : a bold new look at how family and society determine who we become
- Title
- The pecking order
- Title remainder
- a bold new look at how family and society determine who we become
- Statement of responsibility
- Dalton Conley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- We want to think of the family as a haven, a sheltered port from the maelstrom of social forces that rip through our lives. Within the family, we like to think, everyone starts out on equal footing. And yet we see around us evidence that siblings all too often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education. We think these are aberrant cases - the president and the drug addict, the professor and the convict. Surely in most families, in our families, all children will succeed equally, and when they don't, we turn to one-dimensional answers to explain the discrepancy - birth order, for instance, or gender. In this groundbreaking book, Dalton Conley shows us that inequality in families is not the exception but the norm. More than half of all income inequality in this country occurs not between families but within families. Children who grow up in the same house can - and frequently do - wind up on opposite sides of the class divide. In fact, the family itself is where much inequality is fostered and developed. In each family, there exists a pecking order among siblings, a status hierarchy. This pecking order is not necessarily determined by the natural abilities of each individual, and not even by the intentions or will of the parents. It is determined by the larger social forces that envelop the family: gender expectations, the economic cost of education, divorce, early loss of a parent, geographic mobility, religious and sexual orientation, trauma, and even arbitrary factors such as luck and accidents. Conley explores each of these topics, giving us a richly nuanced understanding that transforms the way we should look at the family as an institution of care, support, and comfort. Drawing from the U.S. Census, from the General Social Survey conducted by the University of Chicago over the last thirty years, and from a landmark study that was launched in 1968 by the University of Michigan and that has been following five thousand families, Conley has irrefutable empirical evidence backing up his assertions. Enriched by countless anecdotes and stories garnered through years of interviews, this is a book that will forever alter our idea of family
- Cataloging source
- OEM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Conley, Dalton
- Dewey number
- 306.85/0973
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Families
- Brothers and sisters
- Successful people
- Equality
- Income distribution
- Brothers and sisters
- Equality
- Families
- Income distribution
- Successful people
- United States
- Label
- The pecking order : a bold new look at how family and society determine who we become, Dalton Conley
- Note
- Originally published in 2004
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-292) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Inequality starts at home: an introduction to the pecking order -- Butterflies in Bialystok, meteors in Manila: the nature-nurture red herring -- Love is a pie: birth order and number of siblings -- Death, desertion, divorce: when bad things happen to good families -- Movin' on up, movin' on out: mobility and sibling differences -- Legacies and role models, fat and skin: gender dynamics in the family -- Random acts of kindness (and cruelty): outside influences on sibling success -- From tribes to markets: conclusions, implications, and insinuations -- About the pecking order: a technical appendix
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375713811
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 1693423
- (OCoLC)58995705
- 1678602
- (OCoLC)ocm58995705
- Label
- The pecking order : a bold new look at how family and society determine who we become, Dalton Conley
- Note
- Originally published in 2004
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-292) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Inequality starts at home: an introduction to the pecking order -- Butterflies in Bialystok, meteors in Manila: the nature-nurture red herring -- Love is a pie: birth order and number of siblings -- Death, desertion, divorce: when bad things happen to good families -- Movin' on up, movin' on out: mobility and sibling differences -- Legacies and role models, fat and skin: gender dynamics in the family -- Random acts of kindness (and cruelty): outside influences on sibling success -- From tribes to markets: conclusions, implications, and insinuations -- About the pecking order: a technical appendix
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Extent
- 309 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375713811
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 1693423
- (OCoLC)58995705
- 1678602
- (OCoLC)ocm58995705
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