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作者

来源

EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY,Vol.51,Issue6,P.848-867

语言

英文

关键字

class identity; martial arts education; hope; China

作者单位

[Dong, Xuan] East China Normal Univ, Dept Educ, Shanghai, Peoples R China. Dong, X (reprint author), East China Normal Univ, Fac Educ, Dept Educ, 3663 North Zhongshan Rd, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China. E-Mail: xdong@dedu.ecnu.edu.cn

摘要

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.