ABSTRACT
Busy schedules fostering children’s talents is a key part of Lareau’s conceptualization of classed parenting. Lareau focused on extracurricular activities, while other traditions on the intergenerational transmission of culture take participation in art and culture as their object. In this study, these objects are combined into a children’s space of organized practices to analyze whether concerted cultivation takes different forms at different points in social space. To answer this question, children’s organized practices are analyzed alongside parents’ practices and capital structure using multiple correspondence analysis on a dataset of 4,754 families in Norway. Results indicate that children’s organized lifestyles are structured in homology with parents’ practices and capital composition. This triple homology indicates that children’s habitus are formed by the social position of the family – and the family culture – beginning in preschool. Children’s age and gender strongly influence the kinds of cultural capital accumulation that is possible and when it is possible. With increasing age, children retreat from adult-led practices, taking more initiative themselves. At higher social positions, this retreat is halted, allowing for longer exposure to the culture of the parents. The results contribute to our knowledge on classed parenting and processes of accumulation of cultural capital in childhood.
