In Her Study of Child Rearing, Lareau Found That Working-Class

question 10

Multiple Choice

In her study of child rearing, Lareau found that working-class parents were more apt than middle-class parents to

• A) allow their children to play on their own.
• B) reason and negotiate with their children.
• C) support their children's participation in organized and supervised activities.
• D) adopt the child-rearing strategy of concerted cultivation.

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Definitions:

Overapplied Amount

This is an accounting term referring to a situation where the actual manufacturing overhead cost is less than the overhead cost applied to production, resulting in a surplus.

Factory Overhead

All indirect costs associated with manufacturing, including utilities, indirect labor, and materials not directly traceable to a product.

Machine Hours

A measure of the amount of time a machine is operated within a given period, used in cost accounting to allocate manufacturing overhead costs to products.

Overapplied Amount

A situation in cost accounting where the allocated factory overhead costs exceed the actual overhead costs incurred.