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Direct linkManli Xue; Haiying Wang; Yuqi Wang; Xuefeng Qiao – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
This study explores the complex emotional landscape of Chinese middle-class parents in educational investment, focusing on the paradoxical interplay of confidence and anxiety. Through in-depth interviews with 16 parents in Nanjing, we employed Bourdieu's concepts of illusio and 'capital' to examine how personal emotions, family resources, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Aspiration, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
Kiwan, Dina – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This article examines the inter-relationships among citizenship, class and disability through the methodological juxtaposition of critical policy analysis of constructions of disability and an autobiographical sociology of global middle-class parental strategies in school admissions processes in the Middle East. The author advances the theoretical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Class, Citizenship, Middle Class
Brassard, Marla R.; Chen, Suhong – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
In the West, institutions are considered the worst environment for rearing young children. It was thus surprising to discover on the 2002 Fulbright Travel Seminar to China that boarding schools for children two years of age and older were popular among affluent parents. This article uses observations of the first author in China, cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Boarding Schools, Middle Class, Toddlers
