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Professional legitimacy in flux: academic tutors in a time of uncertainty Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Dongdong Pan, Yisu Zhou, Seung-Hwan Ham
Institutional analysis typically assumes professional newcomers use strategic isomorphism to craft a legitimation project. A qualitative study of 31 tutors and their respective clients and managers...
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Defending the hospital or supporting the complainant: morality in medical disputes Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Long Zhang, Xiaoli Tian
Why do frontline administrators, as liable representatives of the hospital, sometimes neglect the interests of the hospital when handling medical disputes and help complainants? Fieldwork in a tert...
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Selectivity among educational migrants? A multi-sited investigation Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Héctor Cebolla-Boado, Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Research on migration is shifting from comparisons between migrants and non-migrants in destination countries to a multi-sited origin-destination perspective, which allows us to address the issue o...
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Understanding the benefits of parent-child discussion: the role of students and teachers Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Yapeng Wang, Josipa Roksa
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 facilit...
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Gender and intergenerational support in east Asian families Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Man-Yee Kan, Muzhi Zhou
Abstract This review essay summarizes recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, family obligations, and intergenerational support in East Asia. We introduce four papers featured in a special issue published in 2021 and 2022 in this journal. We conclude by highlighting the continual importance of intergenerational support and family obligations in East Asian societies. We foresee that families
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“Globalized traditionalists” and “provincial globalizers” in non-Western intellectual fields: a multiscalar field analysis of the cultural fever debate Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Matthew Ming-tak Chew
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...
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Employers’ resources and experiences of employing live-in foreign domestic workers Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Adam Ka-Lok Cheung
Abstract Employing foreign domestic workers (FDWs) has become a common practice for outsourcing domestic labor. There has been a rapid diffusion process of the practice from the families with more resources to families with fewer resources. This study adopts an employment perspective to examine the employers’ subjective experience and the risk of replacing FDWs, and how these are related to the employing
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Does the crying baby always get the milk? An analysis of government responses for online requests Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Tianji Cai, Fumin Li, Jian Zhan, Zhengrong Wang
Abstract One thing that has frequently been overlooked in studies of how a local government responds to its citizens is the text itself. When a petitioner drafts a post, they can pick up words and choose how the demand or question is conveyed. Thus, how a post is composed may also influence local government responsiveness. In this study, we investigated whether a delayed response is due to the way
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Intergenerational living arrangements and marital fertility in Japan: a counterfactual approach Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2021-11-17 Shohei Yoda
Abstract This paper aims to investigate the causal links between intergenerational living arrangements and marital fertility in Japan, using data from the 2010 and 2015 Japanese National Fertility Surveys (N = 1308). The results indicate that coresidence with the husband’s parents is positively associated with completed marital fertility in the unmatched sample in which confounders of coresidence are
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The Idea of Competition in Dingxin Zhao’s The Confucian-Legalist State Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2018-09-24 Jonathan Hearn
Abstract This article reviews Dingxin Zhao's book The Confucian-Legalist State (2015) with special attention to the use of the concept of competition in that work.
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In the Middle of Two Separated Yet Overlapped Spheres: Rural Nannies in Shanghai Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2018-03-26 Yihui Su, Anni Ni, Yingchun Ji
Abstract This qualitative research expands previous conceptualization and theorizing of the separation and interaction between the public and private spheres in post-reform urban China to rural migrant women working in urban middle-class women’s private family. Collecting data from a domestic service company and eleven rural nannies in Shanghai, we develop a theoretical framework of separated yet overlapped
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Patriarchy, Gendered Spheres, or Evolutionary Adaptation? A Cross-National Examination of Adolescent Boys and Girls Access to Home Resources Chinese Sociological Review (IF 3.667) Pub Date : 2016-05-25 Jun Xu
Abstract: Using data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), this article examines gender differences in obtaining a wide array of educational, social, and cultural resources across forty countries, and assesses the extent to which these differences are consistent with predictions that come from rational choice, cultural, and evolutionary approaches. Analyses confirm that daughters