{"title":"Social and psychological implications of actual and defacto childlessness among older persons in East and Southeast Asia","authors":"B. Teerawichitchainan, Jung-Hwa Ha","doi":"10.1186/s40711-024-00208-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-024-00208-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"148 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobile immobility: an exploratory study of rural women’s engagement with e-commerce livestreaming in China","authors":"Yanning Huang, Zi Yang, Kuan Chang","doi":"10.1186/s40711-023-00204-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-023-00204-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"11 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140496746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Frisbee on football field”: the intergenerational conflict between two sports at grassroots level in China","authors":"Songjie Liu, Ye Jin, Yutao Chen","doi":"10.1186/s40711-023-00202-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-023-00202-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140500102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why is rural E-commerce successful? A sociological analysis of the mechanism for actualizing technological dividends","authors":"Shuqin Zhang, Zeqi Qiu","doi":"10.1186/s40711-023-00205-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-023-00205-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"59 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140512420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three policy perspectives on Japanese female employment","authors":"Yunwei Guo, Yiwei Yao, Xiao Yu","doi":"10.1186/s40711-023-00203-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-023-00203-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"18 1-2","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140515105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English proficiency as a performance of digital social capital: understanding how Chinese study abroad students use WeChat for the symbolic purpose of English language learning.","authors":"Jordan Carolan","doi":"10.1186/s40711-022-00177-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00177-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates how Chinese study abroad students utilize WeChat for the symbolic purpose of English language learning while exploring what particular features of WeChat are beneficial to one's English learning. It also explores how English proficiency acts as a form of digital social capital in China, with a particular focus on how WeChat acts as a stage from which users can perform their perceived higher-social class. By deploying a symbolic interactionist approach and conceptualizing an appropriate theoretical framework, this study aims to determine whether students fully engage with WeChat's symbolic meaning as an English learning tool. Qualitative methods of research consisting of semi-structured interviews and a walkthrough of WeChat are carried out which investigates how English learning features are accessed on WeChat and how they ultimately shape learners' symbolic meanings of WeChat. It is found that performing high English proficiency on WeChat is associated with negative connotations (bragging) due to links between English level and class background. Moreover, factors such as filial piety prevented users from performing their English proficiency and fully engaging with WeChat as a learning tool also.</p>","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"9 1","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9702667/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35255656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two tales of platform regimes in China's food-delivery platform economy.","authors":"Haitao Wei, Luyang Zhang, Peipei Deng, Guohui Li","doi":"10.1186/s40711-022-00170-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00170-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article brings the often-overlooked concept of the labor regime back to the study of China's food-delivery platform workers. Two tales of platform regimes emerge: individualized platform despotism and bureaucratized platform despotism, which apply to crowdsourcing couriers and dedicated delivery couriers, respectively. This study compares these two types of platform regimes in terms of their institutional foundation and labor organization. Despite different institutional arrangements and labor organization, both types of food-delivery couriers belong to a despotic platform regime revealing workers' subordination to the platform. In conclusion, it discusses the implications and limitations of this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":" ","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9340696/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40688065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Guanxi</i> in an age of digitalization: toward assortation and value homophily in new tie-formation.","authors":"Anson Au","doi":"10.1186/s40711-022-00165-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00165-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How do people form personal ties? A consensus holds in sociological and social network scholarship that in-person networks are dominated by status homophily and that <i>guanxi</i> networks rely extensively on balance. This article argues that social networking sites (SNSs) reconceptualize the character of homophily and tie-formation altogether in <i>guanxi</i> networks. Drawing on 50 semi-structured interviews with Hong Kong youth from 2017 to 2020, this article examines how the technical capabilities of SNSs and principles of <i>guanxi</i> culture come together to erode status boundaries, create access to larger networks, and cause spillovers of information and tie strength. As a result, the basis of tie-formation in <i>guanxi</i> networks on SNSs shifts from balance to assortation and status homophily to value homophily. In this transformed calculus of tie-formation, two typologies of values rise to the fore: substantive values that reflect opinions and interests, as well as structural values that reflect networkability.</p>","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":" ","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286725/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40618991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The fabric of Post-Western sociology: ecologies of knowledge beyond the \"East\" and the \"West\".","authors":"Laurence Roulleau-Berger","doi":"10.1186/s40711-021-00144-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-021-00144-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For several centuries, the history of the West has merged with the history of the world. The global economy of knowledge is structured around epistemic inequalities, hegemonies, and dominations. A clear division of scientific practices has developed among academic \"peripheries,\" \"semi-peripheries,\" and \"core.\" The question of epistemic injustice, which includes the indigenization of knowledge, was posed very early in the twentieth century in China, Japan, and Korea without being linked to coloniality, which was the case in Indian sociology. Based on the production of an epistemology shared with Chinese sociologists, we proposed a Post-Western sociology to enable a dialogue-on a level footing-addressing common concepts. This sociology also addresses concepts situated in European and Asian theories that consider the modes of creating continuities and discontinuities as well as the conjunctions and disjunctions between the knowledge spaces situated in different social contexts. We aim to fill the gaps between these social contexts. We will describe an ecology of knowledge in the <i>Western</i>-<i>West</i>, <i>the non</i>-<i>Western</i>-<i>West</i>, <i>the semi</i>-<i>Western West</i>, <i>the Western East</i>, <i>the Eastern East</i>, and <i>the re</i>-<i>Easternized East</i> situated on an epistemological continuum. While Chinese sociology has constantly oscillated between indigenization and universalism, and while epistemic autonomies are diverse, Chinese sociologists agree that Western sociologies should not be considered hostile to Chinese sociology. We will offer a definition of Post-Western sociology and demonstrate how it can be theoretically and methodologically applied. We will then identify some transnational theories, theoretical discontinuities and continuities, and common knowledge situated in Western and non-Western contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":516907,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Chinese Sociology","volume":"8 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40711-021-00144-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40587969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}