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The making of transnational distinction: an embodied cultural capital perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility
Siqi Zhang,Cora Lingling Xu +1 more
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Transnational distinction is highly relevant in an age when western degree inflation intersects with harsh gender expectations for Chinese women student migrants, a significant group of players in the globalization of education.Abstract:
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Chinese students at U.K. universities: Transnational education mobilities as a stepping‐stone to adulthood
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Elite Mobility and Conversions of Different Forms of Capital: An Investigation of Patterns of Study Abroad amongst Elite Graduates from Peking University in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend Bourdieu's convertibility of different forms of capital to understand the patterns of study abroad by elite graduates from Peking University, China, and draw upon empirical data.
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The Value of International Higher Education
Johanna Waters,Rachel Brooks +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the ways in which an international higher education may represent a form of value for individuals, groups, institutions and states, and consider the complexities of capital accumulation and exchange, most notably the way in which they are enmeshed within intricate socio-spatial relations that enable or restrict an individual or group's ability to access and subsequently use their education in a particular way.
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Intersections between the culture of Xiao (孝) and caring for older relatives in China: perspectives of United Kingdom-based Chinese students on future care for their parents
TL;DR: This article conducted three focus groups with 19 UK-based Chinese students, using a semi-structured topic guide with informed consent, to explore the perspectives of Chinese students in England on intergenerational ties and filial obligations.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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Formations of Class & Gender: Becoming Respectable
TL;DR: The Formations of Class & Gender as discussed by the authors examines how real women inhabit and occupy the social and cultural positions of class, femininity and sexuality in modern society, and questions how theoretical frameworks are generated for understanding how women live and produce themselves.
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Sociology in Question
Pierre Bourdieu,Richard Nice +1 more
TL;DR: The Art of Standing Up to Words A Science that Makes Trouble The Sociologist in Question Are Intellectuals Out of Play? How Can Free-Floating Intellectuals' Be Set Free? For a Sociology of Sociologists The Paradox of the Sociologist What Talking Means Some Properties of Fields The Linguistic Market Censorship 'Youth' is Just a Word Music-Lovers Origin and Evolution of the Species The Metamorphosis of Tastes How Can Anyone Be a Sportsman? Haute Couture and Haute Culture But Who Created theCreators'? Public Opinion does
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Class, Self, Culture
TL;DR: Class, Self, Culture as discussed by the authors examines how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange.
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Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State
Hastings Donnan,Thomas M. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the role of the state, ethnicity, transnationalism, border symbols, rituals and identity in an effort to understand how nationalism informs attitudes and behaviour at local, national and international levels.