Cultural Sociology

Content type: Review

How can cultural sociology help us understand contemporary Chinese society?

In this editorial for the Thematic Series: Cultural Sociology and China, we discuss the global growth of cultural sociology as a sociological sub-discipline, its current state and future prospects in mainland ...

Authors: Amy Tsang and Michèle Lamont

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:15

Published on: 25 October 2018
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Content type: Research

One store, two fates: boundary work and service capital in China’s retail sector

How do collective identities gain salience in the workplace? How are new “capitals” created in the process? To answer these question, this study examines the confrontation of two distinctly positioned socio-ec...

Authors: Eileen M. Otis and Tongyu Wu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:7

Published on: 17 May 2018
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Content type: Research

Reconstructing the concept of face in cultural sociology: in Goffman’s footsteps, following the Chinese case

Few readers notice that in a celebrated essay, Goffman, in a footnote, acknowledges the Chinese source of his concept of face. Around the time that Goffman published “On Face-work,” Merton urged that theory de...

Authors: Xiaoying Qi

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:19

Published on: 20 December 2017
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Content type: Research

The hard work of feeding the baby: breastfeeding and intensive mothering in contemporary urban China

Drawing upon the concept of culture as a “tool kit” from which social actors draw pragmatically, this paper explores the relationship between cultural definitions of good mothering and breastfeeding among midd...

Authors: Amy Hanser and Jialin Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:18

Published on: 18 December 2017
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When a joke is more than a joke: humor as a form of networked practice in the Chinese cyber public sphere

Received wisdom views political humor, viz. egao, in the Chinese cyber public sphere as a form of resistance. This study creates and tests a framework that best conceptualizes how different functions of egao a...

Authors: Mathew Yates and Reza Hasmath

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:17

Published on: 14 December 2017
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Content type: Research

Dependent or breadwinner? Vietnamese brides reshaping gender roles at the China-Vietnam border

Within cross-border marriages, foreign brides’ economic contributions to their families are often underestimated due to the fact that they are always believed to be passport and economic “dependents.” However,...

Authors: Pengli Huang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:16

Published on: 31 October 2017
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Bridal photos and diamond rings: the inequality of romantic consumption in China

Although sociological insights into the relationship between consumption and class are mostly borne out by current research in the Chinese context, it is important to consider the implications of applying such...

Authors: Wanning Sun

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:15

Published on: 30 September 2017
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The level of decentralization and property rights protection––a sociological analysis of property rights

Economists have used the mechanism of interjurisdictional competition to explain how decentralization affects the degree of property rights protection. This fails however to account for another significant que...

Authors: Zhenghan Cao and Guoqiang Feng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2017 4:12

Published on: 14 July 2017
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