'Entitlement' and 'Legitimacy' as Emotional Capital: Living out Class through a Critical Educational Failure by Community-College Students in Hong Kong

Autor/in	Wong, Yi-Lee
Titel	'Entitlement' and 'Legitimacy' as Emotional Capital: Living out Class through a Critical Educational Failure by Community-College Students in Hong Kong
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 3, S.616-629 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wong, Yi-Lee)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2020.1776244
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Two Year College Students; Community Colleges; Emotional Response; Middle Class; Working Class; Social Class; Asian Culture; Failure; Parent Influence; Social Influences; Parent Attitudes; Student Attitudes; College Transfer Students; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Community college; Community College; Emotionales Verhalten; Mittelschicht; Arbeiterklasse; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Einfluss; Elternverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Hongkong
Abstract	This paper seeks to take advantage of the concept of emotional capital to analyse how class is lived out through a critical educational failure by referring to the experiences of 64 community-college students in Hong Kong from a longitudinal qualitative study. Arguably an analysis of the emotions of middle-class and working-class respondents and their respective parents could enrich our conceptualization of emotional capital and theorization of its roles in class inequality/reproduction through higher education. Their parents' emotional responses to this educational failure were found to be essentially cultivating middle-class respondents' sense of entitlement to a university education but mostly challenging working-class respondents' sense of legitimacy of pursuing a bachelor's degree. This analysis unpacks processes whereby 'entitlement' and (lack of) 'legitimacy' could be passed on from parents to their children as classed emotional capital and thus suggests a mechanism of class reproduction though emotion in the field of higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11