Overview
- This OA book provides a unique comparative analysis of young adults’ life-course in socialist and post-socialist China
- Shows the impact of social policies transformations on young adults from a gender and inter-sectional perspective
- Provides advanced techniques of life-course analysis and unique quantitative and qualitative data
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 17)
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Keywords
- Open access
- Transition to adulthood in post-socialist China
- Advanced techniques of life-course analysis
- Gender perspective on social policies transformations
- Impact on young adults’ life-course
- Chinese TV drama
- Life-course matrix
- Life calendar to collect retrospective longitudinal data
- In-depth interviews in Beijing
- Life-course typology of work and family trajectories
- Optimal matching (OM) and cluster analysis
- Sequence analysis and multichannel sequence analysis (MCSA)
- Quantitative methodology, qualitative methodology
- Mixed methods research
- The Cultural revolution birth-cohort (wulinghou)
- Post-1980s generation (balinghou)
- Women’s role within Chinese families
- Post-familialism and neo-confucianism
- Articulation between socialist and neoliberal ideologies
- Gender, Welfare State and the rise of precariousness
About this book
This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their individual capacities, to "rely on themselves" (kao ziji) and to no longer "depend on the state" (kao guojia). Based on unique quantitative and qualitative data, this book provides a solid empirical portrait of Chinese youths and transformation of social policies in post-collectivist China
This book will be a great resource to students, academics as well as social scientists and policy-makers who wish not only to understand how, in such a short period of time, young adults and their families have managed to navigate from a relatively egalitarian society to one of the most unequal, but also how the articulation between socialist and neoliberal ideologies is reconfiguring social and economic relations as well as women’s and men’s life-course.
The basis of the English translation of this book from its French original manuscript was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision and rewriting of the content was done by the author.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sandra V. Constantin is a sociologist specialized in social policies. She completed her PhD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. During her PhD, she was a member of the Swiss national centre of competence in research LIVES – Overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives. Her research interests and expertise are focused on the analysis of social policy and inequalities. Her postdoctoral research focused on family policy, gender and care. Member of the COST Action (CA) “Who cares in Europe”, she also investigates how social welfare demands from families shape both voluntary actions and State provisions. As a board member of the European Sociological Association (ESA)’s research network 14 – Gender relations in the labor market and the Welfare State – she is engaged in the rethinking of the welfare state from the perspective of gender.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Life Course Perspective on Chinese Youths
Book Subtitle: From the Transformation of Social Policies to the Individualization of the Transition to Adulthood
Authors: Sandra V. Constantin
Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57215-9Due: 23 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57218-0Due: 23 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57216-6Due: 23 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2211-7776
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 178
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour