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Hizi, Gil – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
Despite recent socioeconomic transformations, young adults in China construe local social norms as inhibiting their individualized selfhood. Based on a study of pedagogies of interpersonal "soft" skills, this article describes an apparatus of self-improvement where self- and social critique play a pivotal role. Through comparison with…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Change, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards