{"title":"Changing socialization values for children in China, 1990–2012","authors":"Yuling Wu, Hong Xiao, Yapeng Wang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2023.2194016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2194016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This research examines recent trends in child socialization values in China. Drawing on repeated cross-sectional datasets from World Values Survey in 1990, 1995, 2001, 2007 and 2012, we assess birth cohort changes and time trends in three dimensions of child socialization values: self-actualization, survival security, and other-orientedness. Results from APC models show that Chinese adults emphasize self-actualization the most and other-orientedness the least, with survival security in between. Early life conditions and formative experiences shape cohort differences. Younger cohorts in general value self-actualization and survival security more than other cohorts. Cohort variations in other-orientedness reveal a flat trend. Between 1990 and 2012 there are period-specific variations in these values, though a simple upward or downward shift in the three dimensions is not found. Socioeconomic development and demographic shifts partially explain the period variations in survival security value dimension. Together, these results unravel the complex trends of socialization values for children as Chinese families adapt to a range of society-wide changes and generational successions, shedding new light on the effects of period, cohort, and social changes on childrearing norms.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"323 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47946263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the benefits of parent-child discussion: the role of students and teachers","authors":"Yapeng Wang, Josipa Roksa","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2023.2188447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2188447","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While ample literature shows that parenting practices are related to educational inequality, less is known about how this occurs. In this study, we examine several potential mechanisms that facilitate the conversion of parenting practices into educational success by focusing on the role of students and teachers. More specifically, we examine how student confidence and teacher praise mediate the relationship between parent-child discussion and students’ grades, and whether the mediation patterns are the same for students from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Analyzing nationally representative data of middle school students from China, we find that parent-child discussion facilitates students’ academic success in part by helping children develop confidence directly, and to a lesser extent by garnering positive teacher attention indirectly. Moreover, while teacher attention is not a salient mediator for students from less advantaged families, it plays a prominent role in linking parent-child discussion with academic performance for those from socioeconomically advantaged families.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"384 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42279544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, beauty and the future of neoliberalism: aesthetic labour and women’s (anti)aspirationalism in Taiwan","authors":"Amélie Keyser-Verreault, G. Rail","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2023.2189577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2189577","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Prior research suggests that gendered norms of appearance are particularly demanding in East Asian societies, including Taiwan. However, it remains unclear how the factor of temporality is related to women’s beautification. Relying on 62 in-depth interviews with Taiwanese women, we explore women’s mobilization of feminine appearance as an important aspirational strategy to gain various advantages and some women’s resistance to those bodily norms in Taiwan’s neoliberal context. The findings reveal that, in both cases, women’s attitude toward the future is determinant. The apprehension of appearance in the future could be illustrated by women’s concern for aging well, their meticulous preparation for maternity, and mothers’ investment in their daughters’ beauty practices. Paradoxically neoliberalism’s future-oriented temporality could result in a resistant attitude toward female beauty, since endless bodily work might lead to a withdrawal from the constant investment in female appearance.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47869951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stalled and uneven? A hierarchical age-period-cohort analysis of gender attitudes in the public sphere in China 1995–2018","authors":"Zheng Su, Mattias Ottervik","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2023.2177146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2177146","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates gender attitudes in the public sphere in China from 1995 to 2018 using World Values Survey data. Although overall support for gender equality in the public sphere has been stable, gender attitudes in the constituent domains of work, politics, and education differ from one another and over time. Egalitarianism is highest in education, while attitudes in the domain of work are on a trajectory to become more egalitarian than in politics. To identify what factors contribute to attitudinal change the Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort (HAPC) model is used. Age effects are always significant, and there is a U-shaped relationship between age and egalitarianism. Period effects are moderately significant and cohort effects are less statistically significant. Higher education levels are associated with higher levels of gender egalitarianism for women than for men. While rural residency is associated with less egalitarian gender attitudes, rural residency for women is associated with more egalitarian attitudes than for men. These results suggest that an age-, domain- and gender-specific approach is helpful to understand gender attitudes in the public sphere in modern China.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"297 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41869054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daily work stress and parent-to-child aggression: moderation of grandparent coresidence","authors":"Weidong Wang, Miao Li","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2023.2165060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2165060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Parental work stress was associated with parenting irritability and use of harsh disciplinary practices, but little is known about how daily fluctuations in work stress proliferate to everyday parenting practices in the context of multigenerational living. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study examined how grandparental coresidence moderates the link between daily work stress and parent-to-child aggression (PCA). Using propensity scores, we matched 129 three-generation households with 133 two-generation households in Zhengzhou, China, based on multiple family characteristics. Parents in both groups completed daily questionnaires for 15 consecutive days. Fixed effects models estimated the within-person associations between parent daily work stress and PCA among the two comparison groups. We found substantial daily fluctuations in parent work stress and PCA. The association between parent daily work stress and PCA significantly varied between two- and three-generation families and was only significant among the former. We conclude that co-residing grandparent(s) could be an important resource that buffers the work-to-PCA stress proliferation. Child abuse prevention programs would likely benefit from concerting with policies supporting the wellbeing of older adults and programs promoting work-life balance.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"277 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49635370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How are family businesses involved in the organizational network of the Communist Party of China: the perspective of organizational sociology","authors":"Jian‐kun Liu, Yun Zhang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2022.2161044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2161044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Embedding its own branches in private enterprises is the governance strategy that the Communist Party of China (CPC) controls the grassroots society. This study proposes a framework by incorporating the socioemotional wealth theory into neo-institutionalism to explain how are family businesses involved in the organizational network of the CPC. Findings reveal that there is an organizational isomorphism that the coverage of party organizations expanded from non-family businesses to family businesses. Furthermore, family businesses are not likely to establish party organizations when coercive pressures are low. However, this resistance strategy sharply disappears when coercive pressures are high, and joining state-backed industry associations and mimicking others’ practice both are also positive factors motivating family businesses to establish party organizations, which means that the coercive, normative and mimetic mechanisms jointly shape the organizational isomorphism. This study contributes to the literature of neo-institutionalism and sheds new light on the state-society relationship in China.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46722996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual pathways of intergenerational influence over multiple generations","authors":"Qing Huang, Xi Song, Yu Xie","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2022.2134851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2134851","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The traditional approach to studying intergenerational influences has been limited to a single-stranded framework, with a focus on the transmission of socioeconomic status across two generations. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of dual-pathway intergenerational influence over multiple generations and test the model by utilizing recent high-quality three-generation panel data from China. The model consists of two intertwined pathways: a socioeconomic pathway measured with educational attainment and a psychological pathway measured with mindset. We show that mindset is a fundamental psychological factor strongly associated with multiple outcomes, including cognitive skills, personalities, and attitudes. Intergenerational influences operate via the transmissions of both mindset and socioeconomic status as well as the cross-domain pathways between the two. Our results offer new insights for a better understanding of intergenerational mobility and immobility.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"237 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42935636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marriage chances and international migration from Fujian to the US, 1978–2000","authors":"Wanling Nie","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2022.2136067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2136067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores the effect of migration on marriage for Fujianese international migrants to the US during a period of mass China–US migration, 1978–2000. It sheds light on significant gender differences in terms of the impact of migration on marriage. Data from the Chinese International Migration Project on Chinese international migration to the US was used, with detailed information on respondents’ migration and marriage history. Discrete-time event history techniques are employed allowing for correlation across migration and marriage at both the individual and household levels. Results show that migration decreased men’s marriage chances, while it only temporarily disrupted those of women. The negative effect of migration on marriage for men could be due to the differing educational levels for male and female migrants, which makes assortative matching less likely at destination, especially for lower educated men. The results also show that migrants have a higher probability of marriage than nonmigrants.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"516 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47953160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Globalized traditionalists” and “provincial globalizers” in non-Western intellectual fields: a multiscalar field analysis of the cultural fever debate","authors":"M. Chew","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2022.2117151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2117151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study’s primary objective is to investigate why “globalized traditionalists” (i.e., intellectuals who are highly globalized but adopt a traditionalist stance) and “provincial globalizers” (i.e., intellectuals who are hardly globalized but adopt a globalizing stance) are prevalent in some non-Western intellectual fields. These two groups feature counterintuitive intellectual characteristics and defy current studies’ findings on intellectual conflict. They have recurred in grand debates on Chinese culture since the 1920s; intellectual historians cannot explain them. This study’s secondary objective is to introduce the “multiscalar field perspective” and showcase its utility for the global sociology of knowledge. This study’s data were collected from primary documentary sources of the Cultural Fever debate, secondary studies, and in-depth interviews with participants of the debate.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46302520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Just a virus” or politicized virus? Global media reporting of China on COVID-19","authors":"Xinguang Fan, Yongjun Zhang","doi":"10.1080/21620555.2022.2116308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2022.2116308","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines how China was covered and framed in global media reporting during the early stage of the coronavirus pandemic. Relying on a global multilingual COVID-19 online news narratives dataset, we propose multidimensional indicators to assess cross-country and cross-period variations in media discourses on China throughout the year of 2020. We derive and assess two hypotheses to explore factors accounting for the variations. The ideology-conflict hypothesis argues that the ideology distance from China determines the media attention and framing toward China in terms of COVID-19 reporting, while the crisis-mitigation hypothesis emphasizes that the domestic pandemic situation is associated with media discourses on China. Empirical analysis based on data compiled from various sources finds no evidence for the ideology-conflict hypothesis and moderate support for the crisis-mitigation hypothesis. Changes in the coronavirus situation and policy reactions are associated with changes in media coverage of China and the use of politicized terms over time. We conclude by discussing the implications of using online media data to understand the COVID-19 infodemic and its contribution to the emerging field of computational sociology.","PeriodicalId":51780,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Sociological Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"38 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48500985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}