According to Annette Lareau's (2003) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family

question 63

Multiple Choice

According to Annette Lareau's (2003) Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, high SES parents are most likely to encourage their children to ______.

• A) enroll in tracked classes geared toward grade inflation
• B) select classes geared toward college preparation
• C) focus on sports instead of academic achievement
• D) avoid challenging themselves academically

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Definitions:

Demand Function

A mathematical representation of the relationship between the quantity demanded of a good and its influencing factors, like price.

Cobb-Douglas

A type of production function used in economics to represent the relationship of an output to inputs, specifically capital and labor, with constants denoting the output elasticity of each input.

Perfect Substitutes

Two or more goods that can be used in place of one another with no loss of utility for the consumer, resulting in constant marginal rates of substitution.

Perfect Substitutes

Goods or services that can be used in exactly the same way and are interchangeable by consumers.