Identity and Social Networks
A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in the United States
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4657-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4657-7 (ISBN)
Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students’ new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.
Through in-depth interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang explores how identity and social networks influence each other and how identity shapes behavior. Zhang’s study concludes the sociocultural contexts in the host culture of the U.S. impacts religious identity acquisition and networks of social relation. Zhang further analyzes the ways in which the transfer from the racially/ethnically homogeneous China to the diverse United States and their time in the United States inform the students’ Chinese ethnic identity and networks, and how these factorsmaintain and transcend the divide between Chinese and non-Chinese communities. Finally, Zhang argues the juggling of multiple identities requires changes in identity meanings and corresponding behavior on the part of the students.
Through in-depth interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang explores how identity and social networks influence each other and how identity shapes behavior. Zhang’s study concludes the sociocultural contexts in the host culture of the U.S. impacts religious identity acquisition and networks of social relation. Zhang further analyzes the ways in which the transfer from the racially/ethnically homogeneous China to the diverse United States and their time in the United States inform the students’ Chinese ethnic identity and networks, and how these factorsmaintain and transcend the divide between Chinese and non-Chinese communities. Finally, Zhang argues the juggling of multiple identities requires changes in identity meanings and corresponding behavior on the part of the students.
Cynthia Baiqing Zhang is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Central Washington University.
Chapter 1: Identity and Social Networks
Chapter 2: Context
Chapter 3: Religious Identity and Sociocultural Environments
Chapter 4: Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Network, and the Sociocultural Link between Ethnic and Student Identities
Chapter 5: Evolution of Networks and Multiple Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and Family (Group and Role) Identities
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w illustrations; 9 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-4657-9 / 1498546579 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-4657-7 / 9781498546577 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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