Affiliation:
1. Sociology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA
Abstract
In a context in which Western children’s leisure time has become increasingly adult-managed, Girl Scouts of the United States of America seeks to distinguish itself from other extracurriculars with a “girl-led” program. However, based on participant observation and interviews with Girl Scout volunteers, I find that Girl Scouts is more parent-led than girl-led as concerted cultivation and intensive parenting moves into an organizational setting. Specifically, parents work together to promote the accumulation of cultural and social capital though collective concerted cultivation, which ultimately limits the autonomy of children and reproduces childhood inequality even in an organizational setting.
Funder
(now defunct) Institute for Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis
Sociology Department at the University of California, Davis
Subject
Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Life-span and Life-course Studies