PRAKTYKI WYCHOWAWCZE A TRANSMISJA WZORÓW KULTUROWYCH
PARENTING PRACTICES AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL PATTERNS IN THE FAMILY

Summary/Abstract: We attempt to show how class position, cultural capital, and other attributes of parents’ social class affect parenting patterns. The findings are based on data from a nationwide survey conducted in 2019. The analysis shows that having higher cultural capital in terms of going to the opera or philharmonic, as well as playing sports or eating at restaurants, is conducive for reading books to one’s children, or taking them to the theatre or classical music concerts. The parents’ level of education and social background has a similar impact: higher education and having a father among the “intelligentsia” is connected to the more frequent application of these parenting practices. A comparison of the parents’ activities shows that mothers have a slightly greater role than fathers with respect to reading books and educating children, although fathers are not distinctly behind mothers when it comes to going with their children to the theatre and concerts. These findings may be seen as an element of the recreating of social distances due to the transmission of cultural practices to children that affect their opportunities in life. They also support the hypothesis of homology, that is, similarity in the patterns of relationships between class position and childrearing practices.

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