Inequality within the Family
Cases of Selective Parents in Post-War Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642410 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yi-Lee Wong (0000-0002-8934-2853, Tohoku University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 31-43 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| 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 | 10.5153/sro.1618 |
| OpenAlex | W2019079708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
While members of the same family are assumed to share similar mobility chances, this paper seeks to answer the following puzzle: why do only some children of the same family attain a level of education considered to be socially desirable whereas their siblings do not? The essence of an answer lies in the fact that the same parents could play rather dissimilar roles in the education of their different children. Using part of qualitative data collected in Hong Kong between 1996 and 1997, this paper focuses on what selective parents did for their children's education. The data illustrated that in deciding what they would and could do for each of their children's education, parents responded to their children's academic ability, resource availability, and ideology. The educational attainments of children of the same family could be very diverse not merely because of children's different academic performances but because of the deliberate decisions of their parents in formulating strategies for basic survival or for advancement. The same parents could be seen as enhancing the education of their sons and/or younger children at the expense of the education of their daughters and/or elder children. This suggests that mobility is of an interdependent nature and, in turn, leads me to argue that the mobility of members of the same family should be considered together and not in isolation, and to support the stance that the family, rather than an individual, should be the unit of analysis in mobility studies
Developmental psychology · Ideology · Inequality · Interdependence · Mathematics education · Nuclear family · Political science · Politics · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Concept of Family Adaptive Strategies
Family obligations and social change
Pathways to Social Class
Birth order and intellectual development.
The constant flux
Transitions, the family and the life course in historical perspective
Self Employment
Chinese Family and Kinship
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship
The Logic of Practice
Biography and Society
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Social Change and the Life Course
From Parent to Child
Class Analysis and the Reorientation of Class Theory
Sibship Size and Intellectual Development
Rebel without A Cause Or Effect
The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out
Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values
On Education, opportunity, and social inequality
"Chinese Educational Achievement and "Folk Theories of Success
Social Mobility, Individual Ability and the Inheritance of Class Inequality
Theorising Patriarchy
Reconsidering the Effects of Sibling Configuration
The Effects of Family Structure on the Educational Attainment of Siblings in Hungary
Sociobiology, Status, and Parental Investment in Sons and Daughters
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |