Education and Upward Social Mobility in China

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu.

Jin Jin is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at East China Normal University. Her research expertise is sociology of education and policy sociology.

1. Is it possible to transcend class domination? 2. Against Bourdieu? Habitus as a (re)imagination for emancipation 3. From a sociology of domination to a sociology of emancipation 4. Living with two worlds: identification, disidentification, and reconciliation 5. Becoming 'exceptions': lights and shadows of meritocracy 6. Beyond 'exceptions': possibilities and boundaries of self-transformation 7. Can we transcend class domination?