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Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

Hardcover

Series: Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific

General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032603062
ISBN13: 9781032603063
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 12 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 backgrounds, who experienced extreme social mobility in the education system and beyond, this book tracks multi-scalar and multi-layered class domination while documenting vivid experiences of living with and over structural disadvantages, forms of working-class 'intelligence', reflexive strategies, 'failures' of social reproduction, and moments of 'mutations'. Through constant comparisons between life stories and Bourdieu, hopes and costs of upward social mobility, and possibilities and boundaries of transcendence, this book reflects on different conceptualisations of working-class reflexivity and suggests a vision of emancipation that can allow and encourage ways and values of 'commoning'. This book highlights a relational perspective of understanding class and class struggles, which in turn introduces a relational perspective of (re)imagining reflexivity and transcendence.

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