This week on Office Hours: Annette Lareau [1], who was at the University of Minnesota a few weeks back to give a talk at the Sociology Department’s annual Sociological Research Institute [2]. While Lareau was in town, we had a chance to chat with her about her current research on how parents decide where to live and where to send their kids to school, and on the success of her bestselling [3] book, Unequal Childhoods [4], as well as giving us a preview of the forthcoming second edition.

Download Office Hours #28 [5].

[1] http://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/annette_lareau

[2] http://www.soc.umn.edu/news/sri.html

[3] http://contexts.org/articles/spring-2010/a-fresh-look-at-sociology-bestsellers/

[4] http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520239500

[5] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH28_Lareau.mp3