Guanxi, Social Capital and School Choice in China
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Guanxi, Social Capital and School Choice in China

The Rise of Ritual Capital

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Guanxi, Social Capital and School Choice in China

The Rise of Ritual Capital

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About This Book

This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice. Guanxi takes on a special significance in Chinese societies, and is widely-discussed and intensely-studied phenomenon today. In recent years in China, the phenomenon of parents using guanxi to acquire school places for their children has been frequently reported by the media, against the background of the Chinese Communist Party's crackdown on corruption. From a sociological perspective, this book reveals how and why parents manage to do so. Ritual capital refers to an individual's ability to use ritual to benefit and gain resources from guanxi.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9783319407548
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Theory & Practice

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction
  4. Chapter 2: Using Guanxi to Gain School Places
  5. Chapter 3: Guanxi and Social Capital
  6. Chapter 4: How Is Guanxi Used?
  7. Chapter 5: Why Is Guanxi Used?
  8. Chapter 6: Ritual Capital
  9. Chapter 7: Ritual Capital Follows a Weak-Strong-Weak Pattern
  10. Chapter 8: Trust in Ritual Capital
  11. Chapter 9: Conclusion
  12. Appendix
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index