The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood

Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants

Bibliographic Data

ID5083796
AuthorsSo Yung Choi (0000-0003-3879-2915, Department of Sociology, The Gender Research Centre HKIAPS The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong, corresponding author), Susanne Y P Choi, Xiaomin Cai (0009-0002-5878-5579, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Xiao-Han Cai (0009-0006-3649-8359, Department of Sociology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong), Yu Pei (0000-0003-1679-0425, Department of Sociology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong), Pei Yu (0000-0002-8848-0584, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lingxi Chen (0009-0007-6551-6090, Department of Sociology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong)
Year2024
Volume24
Issue4
Publication date2024-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12506
OpenAlexW4402140954
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

This study shows how class advantage is transferred to the next generation through parental strategies that cultivate their children's transnational cultural capital from an early age. It combines the concepts of cultural capital and concerted cultivation and adopts a novel methodology, examining parental aspirations (PAs) and strategies from the perspective of the children. The data are derived from the life stories of Chinese global multiple migrants. The article shows that the cultivation of transnational cultural capital amongst elite and middle-class families in China is linked to traditional, neoliberal and non-materialistic PAs. It reveals how parental capital is related to their aspirations and shapes their use of six cultivation strategies. It also discusses the contradictions, dilemmas and disagreements relating to concerted cultivation; examines children's agency and places the findings within global and national contexts. The results provide insights into culturally specific class mechanisms of intergenerational reproduction of privilege in an era of globalization

China · Cultural capital · Economic growth · Economics · Elite · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Materialism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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