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Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University

Chen, J; (2020) Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University. Sociological Research Online , Article 136078042094988. 10.1177/1360780420949884. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

In the Chinese context of a stratified higher education system and significant urban–rural inequality, rural students are generally facing constrained possibilities for social mobility through higher education. Despite these structural constraints, some exceptional rural students, like all the participants in this research, manage to get themselves enrolled in the urban university. Drawing on participants’ subjective narratives about their first encounters in the urban university, I argue that the rural students in this research were confronted with two levels of habitus–field disjunctures, namely, the rural–urban disjuncture and academic disjuncture. Then, through examining participants’ narratives about their hysteresis effects and emotional suffering, I suggest the sense of feeling lost and inferior reveals how various types of domination in the external structure of the field of the urban university play a part in affecting rural students’ inner emotional worlds.

Type: Article
Title: Hysteresis Effects and Emotional Suffering: Chinese Rural Students’ First Encounters With the Urban University
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/1360780420949884
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780420949884
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords: habitus hysteresis, higher education, rural students, social mobility, symbolic violence
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10127126
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