A "Feel-Good" Future: Hopes and Class Identities among Martial Arts Students in China

Autor/in	Dong, Xuan
Titel	A "Feel-Good" Future: Hopes and Class Identities among Martial Arts Students in China
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 51 (2019) 6, S.848-867 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124517747366
Schlagwörter	Athletics; Foreign Countries; Social Class; Self Concept; Aspiration; Student Attitudes; Expectation; Social Status; Private Schools; Vocational Schools; Migrant Children; Dropouts; Parent Child Relationship; Athletic Coaches; Parents; Students; Biographies; Long Range Planning; Rural to Urban Migration; Employment Level; Social Mobility; Sibling Relationship; Friendship; Social Capital; Adolescents; Social Influences; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leichtathletik; Ausland; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Selbstkonzept; Streben; Schülerverhalten; Expectancy; Erwartung; Sozialer Status; Private school; Privatschule; Vocational school; Berufsbildende Schule; Berufsschule; Fachschule; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Eltern; Student; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Langfristige Planung; Landflucht; Beschäftigungsgrad; Soziale Mobilität; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Freundschaft; Sozialkapital; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sozialer Einfluss
Abstract	This article examines how a group of martial arts students in China make sense of their futures and how their hopes toward a "feel-good" future reveal and affect their perceived class identities. Twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China. Dengfeng was home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students in 2012. By uncovering the hopes, aspirations, and perceived class identities of people in martial arts schools, this article argues that the process of class-making for these martial arts students results in constantly reorienting their hopes. These hopes often reflect social comparisons with familiar others like parents, friends, and acquaintances. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01