1st Edition
Education and Upward Social Mobility in China Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu
By Jin Jin
Copyright 2025
186 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
186 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive sociology of emancipation. Drawing on life stories of high-achieving students from working-class... Read more
1. Is it possible to transcend class domination? 2. Against Bourdieu? Habitus as a (re)imagination for emancipation 3. From a sociology of domination to a sociology of emancipation 4. Living with two worlds: identification, disidentification, and reconciliation 5. Becoming ‘exceptions’: lights and shadows of meritocracy 6. Beyond ‘exceptions’: possibilities and boundaries of self-transformation 7. Can we transcend class domination?
Biography
Jin Jin is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at East China Normal University. Her research expertise is sociology of education and policy sociology.
