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Kim, Sung won; Brown, Kari-Elle; Fong, Vanessa L. – Gender and Education, 2018
In this article, we examine how a cohort of urban youth born under China's one-child policy have developed flexible gender identities through their childrearing aspirations and educational and occupational narratives, choices, and trajectories between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on surveys of 406 respondents conducted in 1999, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, Females, Urban Youth
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Liu, Lin; Xie, Ailei – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper reports the findings of an eight-month ethnographic study of a small group of at-risk youths in a school of a southern coastal city in China. The process leading to the young students being marginalised by the school system and how they developed a "muddling through" subculture to counteract this marginalisation is revealed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, At Risk Students, Student Subcultures
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Diao, Wenhao – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article reports on the peer socialization of gendered Mandarin practices between three American students and their Chinese roommates in a college dorm in China. Gender is often perceived to be a salient identity category among adult L2 learners overseas. Drawing on the language socialization framework (Ochs and Schieffelin 1984), this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Relationship, Socialization, Mandarin Chinese