The Time Inheritors

How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China

Cora Lingling Xu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0191-0 (ISBN)

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Reveals the role of time in reproducing inequalities as students navigate rural-to-urban, cross-border, and transnational higher education.

Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors draws on nearly a decade of field research with more than one hundred youth in China to argue that intergenerational transfers of privilege or deprivation are manifested in and through time. Comparing experiences of rural-to-urban, cross-border, and transnational education, Cora Lingling Xu shows how inequalities in time inheritance help drive deeply unequal mobility. With its unique focus on time, nuanced comparative analysis, and sensitive ethnographic engagement, The Time Inheritors opens new avenues for understanding the social mechanisms shaping the future of China and the world.

Cora Lingling Xu is Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at Durham University, United Kingdom.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Significance of Inherited Time

List of Acronyms

Presentation Style

Part I: Theorization of Time Inheritance and Education Mobility

1. Time Inheritance, Banked Time, and Borrowed Time

2. Education as Debt Accumulation or Entitlement

3. Education Mobility as Fate Changing

Part II: How Time Inheritance Reproduces Inequalities

4. Visions of Decisions: From Self-Sabotage to Path Paving

5. Time-Shaped Dispositions: From Debt-Paying Mentality to Sense of Entitlement

6. Time-Induced Consequences: From "Squandering" Labor Time to Achieving Work-life Balance

7. Time Use: From Wasted Time to Gained Time

8. Shades of Career: From Being Trapped in Precarity to Making Bold Career Moves

Summary of Part II: Observed Mechanisms of Inequality Reproduction Through Time Inheritance

Part III: How Time Inheritance Transforms Inequalities

9. Not a Mechanistic Determinism: From Unqualified Inheritors to Zealous Parvenus

10. City-Bound Time Inequalities

11. Political Time: Different Inheritances, Similar Prices

Summary of Part III

Conclusion: Moving Beyond Bourdieu: A Road Map for Global Time Inheritance Research

Appendix: Participant Profiles

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Education in Global Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	1 Figures
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0191-0 / 9798855801910
Zustand	Neuware