Meeting the Moral Markers of Success: Concerted Cultivation among Second-Generation Muslim Parents

Concerted cultivation describes how parents reproduce middle-class status by preparing children for success through the organization of their family’s daily lives. Scholarship accounting for the potentially important role that minority religious identity plays in this process is warranted. The current study fills this theoretical and empirical niche by exploring the parenting practices of second-generation, upper-middle-class Muslim Americans. Utilizing data from two years of ethnographic fieldwork and 72 in-depth interviews with second-generation Arab and South Asian Muslim Americans in suburban Metro Detroit. Dr. KaramI makes contributions to sociology by presenting novel data on a little understood minority group and their institutions.

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