Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will be given by Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau:
Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility
Professor Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania
2.30-4pm, Monday 29 April 2024 (followed by drinks reception 4-5.30pm)
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Drawing on a variety of data sources, much of it unpublished, Annette Lareau presents qualitative research revealing the nuanced ways that cultural knowledge can be consequential in mobility journeys. Her longitudinal data from her book Unequal Childhoods highlights how young adults’ knowledge of navigating institutional barriers, particularly in higher education, can have key consequences. A recent book with Blair Sackett, We Thought It would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America, illuminates how organizations routinely made errors which thwarted the paths of refugees in Philadelphia from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They show the impact of these errors, particularly in the delivery of services, and how cultural knowledge was essential to untangling the “knots” that arise. While extensive work has documented the crucial role of material resources, Annette Lareau draws our attention to the complex ways in which class-based cultural knowledge creates barriers and opportunities for a racially-diverse sample of young people from different class locations.
Annette Lareau is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2024, she is a Leverhulme Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at London School of Economics. She is currently doing a study of the blessings and challenges of wealth for families. Annette Lareau is Past President of the American Sociological Association.
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Cordingley Theatre
Humanities Bridgeford Street
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