ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to address questions with particular emphasis on how parenting mediates socioeconomic status (SES)-child development relations. It then addresses many of the reconsiderations by presenting cutting-edge thinking and research on linkages among SES, parenting, and child development. The chapter explains an array of different disciplines, and they approach the issue of SES, parenting, and child development from a variety of perspectives. A one-dimensional view of social stratification proposes economics as the key dimension to understanding stratification. The term socioeconomic status has historically denoted the relative position of individuals, families, or groups in stratified social systems where some societal values are not uniformly distributed. The complex processes of social stratification, in turn, hierarchically classify people according to their access of those values. Duncan and Magnuson also argue for a differentiated conceptualization of SES, one where the focus falls on the constituent components, including education, occupation, and income.
