ERIC Number: EJ1217358
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Publication Date: 2019-Jul
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A "Feel-Good" Future: Hopes and Class Identities among Martial Arts Students in China
Dong, Xuan
Education and Urban Society, v51 n6 p848-867 Jul 2019
This article examines how a group of martial arts students in China make sense of their futures and how their hopes toward a "feel-good" future reveal and affect their perceived class identities. Twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in Dengfeng, a county-level city in central China. Dengfeng was home to 48 registered martial arts schools and more than 70,000 full-time students in 2012. By uncovering the hopes, aspirations, and perceived class identities of people in martial arts schools, this article argues that the process of class-making for these martial arts students results in constantly reorienting their hopes. These hopes often reflect social comparisons with familiar others like parents, friends, and acquaintances.
Descriptors: Athletics, Foreign Countries, Social Class, Self Concept, Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Expectation, Social Status, Private Schools, Vocational Schools, Migrant Children, Dropouts, Parent Child Relationship, Athletic Coaches, Parents, Students, Biographies, Long Range Planning, Rural to Urban Migration, Employment Level, Social Mobility, Sibling Relationship, Friendship, Social Capital, Adolescents, Social Influences
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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