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Playing To Win : Raising Children In A Competitive Culture
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family time is so scarce? By analysing the roots of these competitive afterschool activities and their contemporary effects, Playing to Win contextualises elementary school-age children's activities, and suggests they
have become proving grounds for success in the tournament of life—especially when it comes to coveted admission to elite universities, and beyond.
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In offering a behind-the-scenes look at how "Tiger Moms" evolve, Playing to Win introduces concepts like competitive kid capital, the carving up of honor, and pink warrior girls. Perfect for those interested in childhood and family, education, gender, and inequality, Playing to Win details the structures shaping American children's lives as they learn how to play to win.
Hilary Levey Friedman, PhD is an affiliate of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy and she received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University.
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Pages : 288
Publisher : University of California Press
Publication date : 2013-09
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology: Family & Relationships