Annette Lareau

Annette Patricia Lareau (born December 28, 1952) is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.

She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of African-Americans and European-Americans. She is also credited with the creation of the term concerted cultivation. This concept refers to middle class child rearing practices. She says that this differs from the parents of children in working-class families, who attribute much of their child raising tactics to the accomplishment of natural growth.