171 - Thematic Session. Children's Work and Children's Play during Hard Times

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This panel is composed of sociologists and other social scientists who are engaged in research focused broadly on the nexus between the changing economy and parent-child relationships. The expert panelists conduct their research using a variety of methodologies and in various contexts: from the perspective of families as consumers, to those of the children of immigrants who often perform significant work in their families, to parent and children’s investments in competitive play, to disability insurance and to lives of youth transitioning into adulthood. This panel contributes to the fields of economic sociology, family and childhood studies by placing children’s activities at the center stage of the discussion of how families negotiate Hard Times.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Joanna Dreby, State University of New York-Albany

Individual Presentations

• Divergent Family Strategies to Social Mobility: Variations on Educational Outcomes among Children of Contemporary Chinese Immigrants in North America and Southern Europe - Min Zhou, Nanyang Technological University

• The Experiences of Material Deprivation and Daily Violence for Children in Argentina - Javier Auyero, University of Texas-Austin

• Growing Up in Uncertain Times: Privilege, Disadvantage and Parent-Child Relations during the Extended Transition to Adulthood - Teresa Toguchi Swartz, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Daniel Thomas Cook, State University of New Jersey-Rutgers