Class Identification, Deferred Elimination, and Social Reproduction in Education
Ontological Ambivalences' Experienced by Working-Class Students at Elite Universities in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jin (0000-0002-9553-3963), Jin Jin (0000-0002-8671-317X, East China Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 896-913 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13607804221104491 |
| OpenAlex | W4296986776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
China's transition from a redistributive economy to a market economy has created an evolving and intensifying social class structure that requires a class perspective and class analysis tools to capture reconfigured social relations and new patterns of social inequalities. Drawing on a three-year life-story study of working-class students at elite universities in China and working with Bourdieu's theoretical tools, this article highlights the emotional costs of class mobility and two associated forms of 'ontological ambivalences'. The findings show 'mundane reflexivity' in class struggles against classifications but more importantly, demonstrate the symbolic violence involved therein and indicate the difficulties of individual agency to achieve politically effective resistances. Although based on the specific context of China, this article contributes to reflections on neoliberal policies elsewhere by shedding light on how neoliberalism relates to and enhances class struggles and the significance of adopting a relational class perspective to understand and address social inequalities
China · Class analysis · Elite · Epistemology · Life chances · Life course approach · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Persistent inequality
Learning to Labour
Unequal Childhoods
Successful rural students in China’s elite universities
Understanding ‘Marginal’ Perspectives
Informed Grounded Theory
The Moral Significance of Class
The Logic of Practice
Sociological Imagination
The State Nobility
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Meritocracy, social mobility and a new form of class domination
The global auction
Toned Habitus’, Self-Emancipation and the Contingency of Reflexivity
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals
The Chinese path to individualization
Struggles for value
Classificatory Struggles
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Attempting to transgress neoliberal value
The Chameleon Habitus
Cognitive Structure of Social Mobility
Strangers in Paradise
Becoming Middle Class
Hybridizing Habitus and Reflexivity
Inequality and Social Stratification in Postsocialist China
Class in contemporary China
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |