This project started at SICSS (sicss.io/2021/princet...@lucampesando.bsky.social and I teamed up in week 2 and started this project. 3 years later, it's published! Along the way, we got tons of helpful advice and feedback. Thank you, everyone (even the anonymous reviewers, truly!)
The paper is open-access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...github.com/ophastings/r... (It's a mix of R and Stata, and some of which I cringe when looking at now, but it is what it is!)
replication files for some of my papers. Contribute to ophastings/replications development by creating an account on GitHub.
Then we examined how this varied across race/ethnicity, income, and education. We found much more variation within groups than across them (reflected in the figure by the mostly horizontal lines). This counters the typical expectation for and focus on differences between groups.
Across 3 situations, most parenting logics reflected some form of intensive parenting, but varied across two dimensions: (1) assertive vs negotiated parenting, and (2) pedagogic vs pragmatic parenting.
We use a form of topic modeling to analyze these open-ended responses. We settled on four topics per situation (see methods appendix). Here are some example results:
We measure parenting logics using an amazing dataset collected by Patrick Ishizuka (also the source of his outstanding SF article: doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...), where respondents gave open-ended advice about hypothetical parenting situations. Like this one:
The issue: the dominant paradigm for understanding parenting is "concerted cultivation" vs the "accomplishment of natural growth." These are mostly measured through parenting practices, but it's often inferred that they reflect different cultural logics of parenting.
New paper!📊 What are the cultural logics of parenting, how can we measure them, and who has which logics? @lucampesando.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Looking forward to sharing research at UCL later this fall!
