Attempting to transgress neoliberal value

Constructing a micro-foundation of social values of working-class youth in vocational schools in China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3465026
AutoresBenny C Lu (Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Anita Koo (0000-0003-2944-8928, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, autor correspondente), N Pun (0000-0001-5725-6988, University of Hong Kong)
Ano2019
Volume67
Fascículo5
Páginas1050-1065
Data de publicação2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038026119845552
OpenAlexW2940315786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas32

In contrast to the existing argument that the logic of capital has monetised almost every aspect of human relationships to the realm of exchange value, this article explores the social values that are practised by Chinese working-class youth as an alternative form of agency and everyday practice. Instead of understanding social values as a realm of value operating entirely outside the logic of exchange value, this article takes social values as the constitutive other of exchange value embodied in the neoliberalised form of capitalism. It attempts to develop a micro-foundation of social values or a social mechanism of values for understanding social protection and class solidarity. Employing in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations in vocational schools in China, at sites for the education and nurture of working-class youth, we ask what social values are, how they are perceived and exercised, and by whom. From students' practices of care in schools, cooperation in the workplace and solidarity in the community, our goal is to build a micro-foundation of social values that challenges and goes beyond the logic of exchange value

Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social class · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Value (mathematics) · Vocational education · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Critical Realism in Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics