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 How Do Political Features Influence the Co-Production of Government Projects? A Case Study of a Medium-Sized Chinese City

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7600
Author(s):  
Wenting Ma ◽  
Rui Mu ◽  
Martin de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Chinese City ◽  
Production Stages ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Western Experience ◽  
The Impact

Co-production is a solution by which the government provides public services. Co-production theory is built upon Western experience and currently focuses on the types of co-production in different policy stages, the barriers and governance strategies for co-production. However, little attention is paid to how political background will influence the co-production process. To fill the gap, we analyzed a case of co-production that occurred in China, and we characterized the political background as consisting of three main political features: political mobility, central–local relations, and performance measurement. Based on an in-depth case study of a government project in a medium-sized Chinese city, the impact and the changes of political features affecting governmental projects in different co-production stages are analyzed and assessed. We find that political features play a critical role in the co-production of China’s large government projects and may separately and jointly affect co-production. Government performance measurement affects the co-design and co-implementation of projects. Political mobility and changes in local government and performance measurement also affect the co-implementation continuity of the project. Political focus affects the co-design of projects. Central-local relations influence the support from higher government and the actual practices of lower government in the co-implementation stage.

scholarly journals Exploring the Factors that Impact Students' Transitions to University in Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangyao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Disadvantaged Students ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Transition Outcomes ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Australian Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Geographical Locations

There are prominent gaps in educational opportunities and academic outcomes in the Australian education system. The government has made efforts to narrow the gaps and increase the proportion of Australians with higher education qualifications. However, disadvantaged students still lack access to educational opportunities and resources, and are underrepresented in university populations. This essay explores the influential factors that can affect young people's academic and transition outcomes, which involve students' socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, engagement in extra-curricular activities and geographical locations. This essay also mainly draws on Bourdieu's theory on social and cultural capital to explain the associations between those factors and students' transitions to university in Australia. 

scholarly journals The Role of Parental Cultural Capital in Student’s Career Selection at Higher Education Level in District Layyah

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (III) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Ghulam Abbas ◽  
Muhammad Farooq ◽  
Ayesha Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Career Selection ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The Government ◽  
External Forces

The career selection process is a very important decisionin every student’s life. Many factors are affecting before thetaking a decision on their future career. In this study, the researcher wants toinvestigate the influence of respondents’ parental cultural capital of selectedareas. Some other factors like; the profession of their parents, their residenceand the income of their family on the career selection process of 320students of tertiary level education from the government sector graduatecolleges of District Layyah. In this study, the researcher also investigatedthose students who are studying in the B.S. program; either they are in theirown will, or they faced some external forces with selecting this field of study.For this proposal, the data was collected through a questionnaire. The resultsshow the parents influence as most significant in the career selection processof the students at the higher education level. It is recommended that parentsequally mobilize their resources, such as social and cultural capital, to theirchildren. This will help them make wise career decisions.

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.

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.

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