ABSTRACT
Conceptions of childhood and adult values regarding children have received considerable attention in past decades, particularly by sociologists and social psychologists concerned with the persistence of social inequality over generations. The link between the objective conditions of work, subjective orientations, and modes of behaving toward children is well established in this literature. In recent years the work of Melvin Kohn and his colleagues (see e.g., Kohn, Schooler et al., 1983) has been particularly important in establishing the connection between aspects of social structure, psychological functioning, and values.
