scholarly journals Students’ social origins, educational process and post-college outcomes: The case of an elite Chinese university

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-66
Author(s):  
Sunny Xinchun Niu ◽  
Yajun Zheng ◽  
Fei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Graduate Study ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
College Outcomes ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Logit Modeling

Scholars debate whether and how higher education and elite education experiences break or reinforce the link between social origins and status attainment in meritocratic societies. We contribute to these debates focusing on post-college outcomes of elite university students in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal survey of the 2014 freshmen cohort from an elite Chinese university and a sequential logit modeling technique, we find that meritocracy is seemingly at play between the trajectories of graduate study and employment. However, within each trajectory, students’ hukou (urban/rural registration status) and regional backgrounds significantly constrain their post-college options, partly through differential participation in high-impact educational practices. Furthermore, social origins leave marks on students’ motives for graduate study.

Peripheries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Wingfield
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Difference

The Ministry of Interior issued a decree on 21 November 1906 soliciting proposals for revision of regulation from all provincial governors on regulation in the large cities in their jurisdiction with large industrial installations or military garrisons. Respondents across Austria addressed four major issues: 1) the utility of regulating prostitution on the example of the tolerated brothels; 2) the danger prostitutes posed to public health; and less often, 3) the social origins of local prostitutes; and 4) the social profile of clients. Responses reveal varying attitudes toward, experiences with, and understandings of, regulation. They demonstrate an urban-rural division in attitudes toward the efficacy of regulated prostitution. The reactions underscore the difference between monitoring in many small-to-medium-sized municipalities, where police knew many of the actors personally, and the anonymity that prevailed in the Empire’s larger cities, where authorities often considered regulation the best of a series of bad solutions.

scholarly journals Secondary school principals and liminality in Polish Upper Silesia (1919-1939)

2021 ◽  
pp. 161189442199268
Author(s):  
Machteld Venken
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
The Social

Establishing and implementing rules that would teach young people to become active citizens became a crucial technique for turning those spots on the map of Europe whose sovereignty had shifted after World War I into lived social spaces. This article analyses how principals of borderland secondary schools negotiated transformation in Polish Upper Silesia with the help of Arnold Van Gennep’s notion that a shift in social statuses possessed a spatiality and temporality of its own. The article asks whether and how school principals were called on to offer elite training that would make Polish Upper Silesia more cohesive with the rest of Poland in terms of the social origins of pupils and the content of the history curriculum. In addition, it examines the extent to which borderland school principals accepted, refuted, or helped to shape that responsibility. The social origins of pupils are detected through a quantitative analysis of recruitment figures and the profiles of pupils’ parents. This analysis is combined with an exploration of how school principals provided a meaningful explanation of the recent past (World War I and the Silesian Uprisings). The article demonstrates that while school principals were historical actors with some room to make their own decisions when a liminal space was created, changed, and abolished, it was ultimately a priest operating in their shadows who possessed more possibilities to become a master of ceremonies leading elite education through its rites of passage.

scholarly journals Anti-Japanese Sentiment among Chinese University Students: The Influence of Contemporary Nationalist Propaganda

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou ◽  
Hanning Wang
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
War Of Resistance ◽  
Negative Sentiment

This study looks at the sources of anti-Japanese sentiment in today's China. Using original survey data collected in June 2014 from 1,458 students at three elite universities in Beijing, we quantitatively investigate which factors are associated with stronger anti-Japanese sentiment among elite university students. In particular, we examine the link between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s nationalist propaganda (especially patriotic education) and university students’ anti-Japanese sentiment. We find that nationalist propaganda does indeed have a significant effect on negative sentiment towards Japan. Reliance on state-sanctioned textbooks for information about Japan, visiting museums and memorials or watching television programmes and movies relating to the War of Resistance against Japan are all associated with higher levels of anti-Japanese sentiment. The findings suggest the effectiveness of nationalist propaganda in promoting anti-Japanese sentiment. We also find that alternative sources of information, especially personal contact with Japan, can mitigate anti-Japanese sentiment. Thus, visiting Japan and knowing Japanese people in person can potentially offset some of the influences of nationalist propaganda.

scholarly journals PATHWAYS INTO A SCIENTIFIC ELITE: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS, SCHOOLING AND UNIVERSITIES OF FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BORN FROM 1900

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erzsebet Bukodi ◽  
John H Goldthorpe ◽  
Inga Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Golden Triangle ◽  
Elite University ◽  
Private Schooling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Elite ◽  
Royal Road

We report on continuing research on the British scientific elite, intended to illustrate a proposed new approach to elite studies, and based on prosopographical data on Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900. We extend analyses previously reported of Fellows’ social origins and secondary schooling so as to take their university careers into account. The composite term ‘Oxbridge’ is called into question, as Cambridge appears historically to have been far more productive of members of the scientific elite than Oxford. However, Fellows from more advantaged class backgrounds do have a clearly higher probability than others of having attended Cambridge, Oxford or London, rather than universities outside of ‘the golden triangle’ – an outcome only partially mediated through private schooling. The ‘long arm’ of family of origin is thus apparent, although private schooling has been more important in helping Fellows from managerial rather than from professional families to gain entry to an elite university. Family influences on Fellows’ fields of research also remain, even though a further major factor is the universities they attended. A ‘royal road’ into the scientific elite, which Fellows from higher professional and managerial families have the highest probability of having followed, can be identified: that leading from private schooling to both undergraduate and postgraduate study at Cambridge. But the most common pathway, taken by 20% of all Fellows, is that leading from state schooling to undergraduate and graduate study at universities outside of the golden triangle. Fellows from higher professional, but not managerial, families show a distinctively high probability of having avoided this pathway; but it is that most common for Fellows of all less advantaged class origins. The case of the British scientific elite would suggest that detailed and disaggregated analyses of processes of elite formation can show these to be much more diverse than has often been supposed.

scholarly journals Training of Teachers at the Moscow Institute of Arts of Weinan Pedagogical University as a Form of International Cooperation between Russia and China

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Luo Wanqi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
State University ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Russian Model

The article presents some features of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the field of teacher training for China. Moscow Pedagogical State University together with Weinan Pedagogical University not only implements joint educational programs of pedagogical profile, but also forms a new system of educational process management in the joint structural educational division of the Chinese University. The implementation of joint educational programs in the field of preschool education, training of teachers of fine arts and music was the first project based on intergovernmental agreements between Russia and China on the creation of a joint structural educational unit in a Chinese University. The project is related to the development of modern approaches to teacher training for the People’s Republic of China based on the achievements of the Russian model of teacher training.

scholarly journals Beyond Networks: Health, Crime, and Migration in Mexico

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose N. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Migration Decision ◽  
Coefficient Estimates ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
The Us ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Significant Support

Two rounds of a longitudinal survey from Mexico, representative at the national, urban, rural, and regional level, are used to examine the determinants of local, domestic, and international migration. Aside from the typical covariates in the migration decision, this study considers health conditions, crime, and individual’s perspectives on life as explanatory variables. Coefficient estimates for most health variables do not offer significant support to the healthy migrant hypothesis. In terms of crime, the results suggest that females respond to worsening safety conditions in Mexico by migrating domestically, but not abroad. The decision to migrate domestically or abroad for males is not statistically correlated with increases in crime. Overall, having access to international migration networks continues to play a significant role in the decision to migrate to the US.

Children's Organized Physical Activity Patterns From Childhood into Adolescence

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 708-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne C. Findlay ◽  
Rochelle E. Garner ◽  
Dafna E. Kohen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Parental Education ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Nationally Representative

Background:Few longitudinal studies of physical activity have included young children or used nationally representative datasets. The purpose of the current study was to explore patterns of organized physical activity for Canadian children aged 4 through 17 years.Methods:Data from 5 cycles of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth were analyzed separately for boys (n = 4463) and girls (n = 4354) using multiple trajectory modeling.Results:Boys' and girls' organized physical activity was best represented by 3 trajectory groups. For boys, these groups were labeled: high stable, high decreasing, and low decreasing participation. For girls, these groups were labeled: high decreasing, moderate stable, and low decreasing participation. Risk factors (parental education, household income, urban/rural dwelling, and single/dual parent) were explored. For boys and girls, having a parent with postsecondary education and living in a higher income household were associated with a greater likelihood of weekly participation in organized physical activity. Living in an urban area was also significantly associated with a greater likelihood of weekly participation for girls.Conclusions:Results suggest that Canadian children's organized physical activity is best represented by multiple patterns of participation that tend to peak in middle childhood and decline into adolescence.

scholarly journals Urban–Rural Residential Mobility Associated With Political Party Affiliation: The U.S. National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and Young Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062199400
Author(s):  
Markus Jokela
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
National Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Rural Residence ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Political Party Affiliation

The current study used longitudinal panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79; n = 7,064) and National Longitudinal Survey of Young Adults (NLSY-YA; n = 2,985) to examine whether political party affiliation was related to residential mobility between rural regions, urban regions, and major cities in the United States. Over a follow-up of 4–6 years, stronger Republican affiliation was associated with lower probability of moving from rural regions to major cities (relative risk [RR] = 0.71, confidence interval [CI] = [0.54, 0.93]) and higher probability of moving away from major cities to urban or rural regions (RR = 1.17, CI = [1.03, 1.33]). The empirical correlation between party affiliation and urban–rural residence was r = −0.15 [−0.17, −0.13]. Simulated data based on the regression models produced a correlation of r = −0.06 [−0.10, −0.03], suggesting that selective residential mobility could account almost half of the empirically observed association between party affiliation and urban–rural residence.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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