Muslim Narratives of Schooling, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference: A Case Study in Multi-ethnic Northwest China

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIN YI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital

This paper draws upon fieldwork among a Muslim community in the Qinghai-Gansu borderland areas to explore how the desire of Muslims to achieve social mobility through education is blocked by the larger society which regards them as ‘familiar strangers’. This can be understood as a tension between their desire for full social citizenship in the form of rights to employment and education and the limited social and cultural capital they possess that prevents them from achieving the former. This tension is primarily caused by the party-state's ambivalence over the project of state nation building and minority rights. By focusing on Muslim narratives of their experiences in the cultural exclusion, this case study attempts to scrutinize how the cultural exclusion affects the engagement of ethnic minorities in education as well as the larger society, although it has been recognized that the experience of exclusion varies between minority groups.

scholarly journals Hierarchy within female ACG fandom in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianwei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital

This case study focuses on a Chinese female-oriented ACG fan community, 3n5b, with an eye to studying how this community creates a sense of exclusivity and hierarchy through the discourses of copyright infringement, fan labor, and quality membership. Through controlling the distribution of rare resources, 3n5b creates high demand for their manga scanlation, and this demand is translated to a highly restricted membership. Membership is valuable because it is closely related to individual member's social and cultural capital, as well as their access to forum resources. Well-behaved members can slowly gain entry into more restricted forums, while members who violate forum rules are punished with loss of forum status or even membership revocation. This hierarchy seeks to raise the forum's overall quality and to wall off unwanted members, but it also replicates offline power relations that inevitably place people of lower social status at a disadvantage.

Anxiety, panic and self-optimization

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Pocket Money ◽  
Tone Of Voice ◽  
Secondary Hypothesis

This article will look to YouTube’s algorithm to assess how such forms of mechanical decision-making can create a discriminatory visibility hierarchy of vloggers, favouring middle class social actors who make highly gendered content aligned with advertisers’ demands and needs. I have selected entrepreneurial beauty vloggers as a case study for this article; beauty vlogging is defined as the demonstration and discussion of cosmetic use, often from a vIoggers’ own bedroom (Banet Weiser, 2017; Nathanson, 2014). This is a deeply entrenched genre on the site; beauty vlogging is a full-time job for some successful participants, and a source of pocket money for many more. Moreover, beauty vlogging is an effective illustration of how the YouTube algorithm causes the polarization of identity markers such as gender. Indeed, for female participants, I hypothesize that YouTube actively promotes hegemonic, feminized cultural outputs, created by beauty vloggers with significant embodied social and cultural capital. That is to say, for women on YouTube, the algorithm privileges and rewards feminized content deeply entwined with consumption, beauty, fashion, baking, friendships and boyfriends in the vein of the historical bedroom culture of the teenage magazine. A secondary hypothesis is that beauty vloggers’ own understandings of YouTube’s algorithmic processes are learned and embodied within their own practices, influencing modes of self-presentation, tone of voice, choice of content covered, words and sentence structures used. I argue that it is essential to situate all beauty vloggers’ experience and content as specific to the platform of YouTube; it is their continued success on the YouTube platform that underwrites the value of their brands. In other words, even highly successful vloggers remain beholden to YouTube’s technologies of visibility, they are not safe from the sovereignty of the algorithm.

Local Voices and New Narratives in Xinye Village

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Zhejiang Province ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
The Village

The present chapter is influenced by critical heritage scholars who understand heritage as a ‘process’ rather than a particular object, place or practice, or, differently put, understand heritage as a verb and as something that both discursively and materially transforms places and practices. It illustrates the complex and changing rural heritagescape in China through a case study of Xinye village in Zhejiang province. The focus is on how the heritagisation process has involved and given rise to multiple stakeholders and actors with different social and cultural capital in and outside the village, and the different ways they engage with and make sense of heritage. It pays particular attention to how the heritage is mediated and visualised on film, analysing a range of different TV productions, and how performance and entertainment are essential aspects of the heritagisation process.

scholarly journals Yueju – The Formation of a Legitimate Culture in Contemporary Shanghai

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-227
Author(s):  
Haili Ma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Government

This article presents a case study of the development of a local cultural form – Shanghai Yueju – caught up in the rapid urban redevelopment of post-socialist China. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ’habitus’ and ’distinction’, it analyses the processes of the reformation of taste and class in a Chinese city. It explores the following question: can high levels of financial investment revive Yueju and allow it to gain market success and cultural distinction? The question is examined in the context of Shanghai’s swift urbanisation process, throughout which the government has reinforced its control over not only economic but also social and cultural capital. It suggests that ignoring Yueju’s rootedness in a local habitus of long history and focusing only on its economic organisation has had a damaging effect on the vibrancy and viability of this cultural form. This case study of Yueju in Shanghai suggests that economically driven cultural development could lead to the erosion of local culture and restricting its social and cultural innovation.

scholarly journals Cultivating Capital for High School Newcomers: A Case Study of an Urban Newcomer Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Rabia Hos ◽  
Kayon Murray-Johnson ◽  
Amy Correia
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Newcomer Program ◽  
K 12

This qualitative case study examines how students in a high school newcomer program experience the development of social and cultural capital. Newcomer programs are created by K-12 schools with large influxes of refugees and immigrants.  This case study data stems from a larger ethnographic study of a newcomer program at Georgetown High, an urban secondary school in the Northeast region of the United States. Using Bourdieu’s (1986) social and cultural capital theory as a framework for the study we provide an overview of the literature on the importance of helping newcomers build social and cultural capital. Themes arising from the data as representations of the experiences of newcomers building capital and the role of the teacher in that development is explored further. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications of the case for research, policy, and practice.

Muslim Personal Law and Citizens' Rights: The Case of Singapore

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The Family ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Competing Ideas ◽  
Personal Law

AbstractPrevailing discourse on multiculturalismi tend to focus on its merits in protecting the cultures and traditions of minority groups within the framework of the politics of accommodation. Less discussed are its implications on the rights and autonomy of members of the groups themselves who may be adversely affected by the arrangement. This paper attempts to fill the lacunae. It focuses on the problems arising from autonomy granted to the Muslim community of Singapore to determine its personal law, on some segments of the community. Unlike the rest of the citizens of Singapore, the Muslims are bound by their personal law in the domain of the family which they cannot relinquish as long as they remain Muslims. The system which began during the period of British colonial administration has remained ever since. Differences in the mechanisms as well as the orientation of social agencies in determining the Muslim law from those affecting the nonMuslims, invite unwarranted implications on the rights of Muslims, specifically. The problem is reinforced by the strong tendency of state actors to over-rely on dominant groups within the Muslim community in determining matters of Muslim law at the expense of competing ideas and orientation. The absence of choice of law for Muslims poses a predicament to those who do not wish to renounce their religion but maintain differences in perceptions of the Muslim law. This paper analyzes these problems in the arena of the Muslim law on marriage, divorce and inheritance. It also highlights how the arrangement has, in some instances, resulted in the exclusion of Muslims as a whole from the purview of specific national laws and influence policies affecting them against the preferences of the group's members. These issues have generally received scant attention, if at all, eclipsed perhaps by the greater focus on the merits of multiculturalism in protecting minority rights. Some plausible ways, in which the unwitting implications of legal pluralism on the members of the Muslim community can be addressed, taking into consideration both their right as members of the group as well as citizens of the state, are also discussed.

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