The Strength of Sibling Ties: Sibling Influence on Status Attainment in a Chinese Family

• 主要作者: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• 主題: China; intergenerational mobility; sibling relations; social resources; status attainment; strong ties; Asian Studies; Family, Life Course, and Society
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1186; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2442/viewcontent/StrengthSiblingTiesSiblingInfluence_2012_Sociology.pdf

What allowed eight siblings from a politically disadvantaged rural family to overcome institutional barriers and achieve upward mobility during Maoist China? What then restricted their children’s chances of upward mobility during the Reform era, when both family background and institutional environm...