| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 115 pages) |
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Brill Research Perspectives. Global youth |
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Brill research perspectives. Global youth
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| Contents |
1 Sociology of Youth in China: Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- 1.1 Chinese Youth and Sociological Theory -- 1.2 Youth in China and Methodological Issues -- 2 Chinese Youth and Migration -- 2.1 Chinese Experience and Internal Migration -- 2.2 Hukou Policy and Children of Rural Migrant Workers -- 2.3 Migrant Children, Educational Opportunities and Social Reproduction -- 2.4 Labor and Migration -- 2.5 Floating Work and Biographic Bifurcations -- 2.6 Young Workers and Collective Action -- 3 Youth and Education in China |
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3.1 The Development of Higher Education in China -- 3.2 Expansion of Higher Education and Equality -- 3.3 Vocational Education and Social Stratification -- 3.4 Social Transformation, System and Educational Inequality -- 3.5 Family Background and Educational Access -- 3.6 Educational Inequalities and Social Change -- 4 Youth and Chinese Family -- 4.1 The Transformations of Chinese Family since 1980 -- 4.2 Familial Relationships, Patriarchy and Modernities -- 4.3 Chinese Youth and Marriage -- 4.4 Young Chinese Women and Fertility -- 4.5 Conflicts and Arrangements in the Chinese Family |
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5 Youth and Urban Life in China -- 5.1 Urban Boundaries, Chinese Youth and Social Inequalities -- 5.2 Young Migrants, Urban Segregation and Stigmatization -- 5.3 Youth, Participation and Contestation in the Chinese City -- 5.4 The "Industry of Happiness" and Youthscapes -- 5.5 Chinese Youth and Urban Cosmopolitanism -- 6 Chinese Youth, Labor and the Search for Respect -- 6.1 Chinese Youth and Employment -- 6.2 Labor Markets, Youth and Inequalities -- 6.3 Young Graduates and Social Disqualification -- 6.4 Platform Capitalism and Restricted Autonomy -- 6.5 Work and the Search for Dignity |
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6.6 Stress and Suffering at Work -- 7 Youth and Digital Life in China -- 7.1 Chinese Youth and Digital Life -- 7.2 Platform Economy and Social Interactions -- 7.3 Intra and Intergenerational Digital Divide -- 7.4 Digitalization and Collective Mobilizations |
| Summary |
In China, a process of compressed socialization of youth is characterized by multiple spatial, professional and social mobilities. Young skilled Chinese move and circulate to improve their qualification and education levels in order to develop upward social mobility's trajectories. Young low-skilled migrants' biographic pathways are structured around spatial discontinuities and horizontal social mobilities. In labor markets, the phenomenon of structural disqualification impacts young Chinese and the risk of downward social mobility has affected the young middle-class. Platforms appear as new spaces of commodification and subordination that produce a cybertariat . In Chinese mega-cities, social inequalities and urban boundaries do promote segregation and marginalization, while at the same time, young Chinese entrepreneurs are developing international networks and economic cosmopolitanism. Chinese youth are crossing transnational spaces wherein identities are redefined through a process of cultural creolization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-115) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Youth -- China
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Youth -- China -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Youth.
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Youth -- Social conditions.
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Su, Liang, author
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| ISBN |
9004538372 |
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9789004538375 |
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