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A "Feel-Good" Future: Hopes and Class Identities Among Martial Arts Students in China.
- Source :
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Education & Urban Society . Jul2019, Vol. 51 Issue 6, p848-867. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00131245
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Education & Urban Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136767552
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124517747366