Entitlement' and 'Legitimacy' as emotional capital
Living out class through a critical educational failure by community-college students in Hong Kong
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yi-Lee Wong (0000-0002-8934-2853, Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Education, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 616-629 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2020.1776244 |
| OpenAlex | W3033971688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper seeks to take advantage of the concept of emotional capital to analyse how class is lived out through a critical educational failure by referring to the experiences of 64 community-college students in Hong Kong from a longitudinal qualitative study. Arguably an analysis of the emotions of middle-class and working-class respondents and their respective parents could enrich our conceptualization of emotional capital and theorization of its roles in class inequality/reproduction through higher education. Their parents’ emotional responses to this educational failure were found to be essentially cultivating middle-class respondents’ sense of entitlement to a university education but mostly challenging working-class respondents’ sense of legitimacy of pursuing a bachelor’s degree. This analysis unpacks processes whereby ‘entitlement’ and (lack of) ‘legitimacy’ could be passed on from parents to their children as classed emotional capital and thus suggests a mechanism of class reproduction though emotion in the field of higher education
Conceptualization · Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Legitimacy · Middle class · Political science · Social capital · Social class · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Critical Race Theory in Education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
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Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children
Marxism and literature
Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure
Learning to Labour
The Best of the Best
Longing and Belonging
Family Capital
Access to Power
Leadership as Emotional Labour
Emotion Management in the Workplace
The Managed Heart
The Moral Significance of Class
The Logic of Practice
Is Hong Kong no Longer a Land of Opportunities after the 1997 Handover
Understanding working-class 'drop-out' from higher education through a sociocultural lens
Working class mothers and school life
Carrying the beacon of excellence
Gendered capital
Emotional journeys
Family Resources, Gender, and Immigration
Emotional Capital and Education
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
The Reproduction of Inequalities Through Emotional Capital
Bridging socio-cultural incongruity
Angels falling from grace? The rectification experiences of middle-class community-college students in Hong Kong
Social Explanation and Socialization
Exchange, Value and Affect
A Useful Extension of Bourdieu's Conceptual Framework
The perceived inherent vice of working-class university students
(No) Harm in Asking
Out with the Old, In with the New? Habitus and Social Mobility at Selective Colleges
The Price of the Ticket
Strangers in Paradise
Elite Higher Education Admissions in the Arts and Sciences
Beyond Consciousness
The Sociology of Emotional Labor
The Stratification of Emotions
Theorizing emotional capital
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |