Education and Upward Social Mobility in China
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Education and Upward Social Mobility in China

Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

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Education and Upward Social Mobility in China

Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu

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About This Book

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.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of Bourdieu, sociology of education, and education in China.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040115572
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Theory & Practice

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures and tables
  8. Foreword
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Is it possible to transcend class domination?
  11. 2 Against Bourdieu? Habitus as a (re)imagination for emancipation
  12. 3 From a sociology of domination to a sociology of emancipation
  13. 4 Living with two worlds: Identification, disidentification, and reconciliation
  14. 5 Becoming ‘exceptions’: Lights and shadows of meritocracy
  15. 6 Beyond ‘exceptions’: Possibilities and boundaries of self-transformation
  16. 7 Can we transcend class domination?
  17. Index