Dr. Annette Lareau, a professor of sociology at Temple University, will lead the colloquium “Unequal Childhoods Grown Up: Class, Race, and Family Life” at UNCG on Monday, March 14.

The colloquium, sponsored by the Department of Sociology, will feature a discussion of Lareau’s study of white and black families and the differences in child rearing by social class. It will take place 3:30-5 p.m. in the Virginia Dare Room of the Alumni House.

Lareau wrote about her study in the 2003 book “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life,” a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award and recipient of best book awards from the American Sociological Association in three categories.

Her first book, “Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education,” won the Willard Waller Award of the Sociology of Education Section of the ASA.

For more information, call the Department of Sociology at 334-5295.