Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China

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Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China

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• Higher Education, Meritocracy and Inequality in China

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• Singapore, Springer, 2016

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• ©2016

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• Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Gap of Existing Research and Research Questions -- Map of the Argument -- An Interdisciplinary Approach -- 2 Origins of Meritocracy in China -- Philosophical Origins of Chinese Meritocracy -- Meritocracy, Education and the Keju in Imperial China -- The Development of Dynastic Education Provision in the Ming Dynasty -- The Formation of Empire-Wide Civil Service Examination System -- The Keju and Social Mobility -- Classical Education, Cultural Capital and Contested Mobility? -- Sponsored Mobility: Surnames, Lineages and Intermarriage -- Keju Quotas, Social Mobility and the State -- Conclusion -- 3 A Comparative Analysis of Western Meritocracies -- Introduction -- Theories of Meritocracy and Their Critiques -- The Role of Merit-Based Rewards in Structural Functionalist Theory -- Michael Young's Meritocratic Dystopia -- Empirical Research on Meritocracy and Social Mobility -- Professionalism and Meritocracy -- A Comparative Analysis of Western Meritocracies -- Presence or Absence of Contested Sponsorship at the Schooling Level -- France and Germany -- UK and the US: Presence of Contested Sponsorship -- Japan: Presence of Shadow Education -- Presence or Absence of Homogenous Entrance Examinations and Selection Criteria -- Presence or Absence of Private Contributions to Higher Education -- Conclusion -- 4 Education and Social Harmony During China's Great Transformation -- Introduction -- Three Main Accounts for the Expansion of Higher Education Since the 1990s -- Modernisation Approach -- Human Capital Account -- Globalisation Account -- Higher Education Selection and Political Changes Over the Course of the PRC -- The Socialist Transformation: 1949-1957 -- The Socialist Construction: From 1958 to 1965 -- The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
• The Fall of Political Affiliation-Based Selection and the Rise of Meritocratic Selection: 1978 to the Present -- Great Transformation, Meritocracy and the strategy of 'Development and Stability' -- The Great Transformation and the Widening Inequality -- The Changes in the State-Economy Relationships and in the Social Structure During the Market Transition -- The Widening Inequality -- The Unstable Political Situation in the 1980s -- Meritocracy and the Strategy of the 'Development and Stability' (发展与稳定) -- Conclusion -- 5 The Gaokao as a Meritocratic Selection? -- Empirical Work in China -- Constructing Variables -- The Gaokao -- Types of Higher Education Institutions and Fields of Study -- Higher Education Selection and Recruitment: The Three-Choice System -- Cut-off Points and the Quota Policy -- Dependent Variables: The Gaokao Scores -- Types of Higher Education Institutions and Fields of Study -- Conclusion -- 6 Meritocracy, Education Opportunities and Social Stratification -- Introduction -- Maximally Maintained Inequality (MMI) and Effectively Maintained Inequality (EMI) Theory -- The MMI and EMI Theory in the Chinese Context -- Conceptualising Social Origin in Contemporary China -- Hypotheses and Variables -- General Pattern of Higher Education Participation by Social Origin from the Survey Study -- Models, Results and Analyses -- Discussions -- Conclusions -- 7 Meritocracy and Cultural Capital -- Introduction -- Bourdieu's Cultural Capital Thesis -- Boudon's Positional Theory: Primary and Secondary Effects -- Extending Cultural Capital and Positional Theory to Contemporary China -- Hypotheses, Variables and Data -- General Pattern of Higher Education Participation in Relation to Cultural Capital from the Survey Study -- Models, Results and Analyses -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 8 Meritocracy, Gender and the 'One-Child' Policy -- Introduction
• Gender and Education in the Developing Contexts -- Gender and Education in the Chinese Context -- The 'One-Child' Policy -- Expansion of Higher Education and Women's Participation -- A General Pattern of Higher Education Participation by Gender -- The Qualitative Data on the Gaokao Experiences -- After the Gaokao: Qualitative Participation in Higher Education by Gender -- Academic Commitments -- Political Engagement -- Social Commitments -- Conclusion -- 9 Meritocracy and Geographical Stratification -- Introduction -- Economic Development, Decentralisation Governance and the Rise of Regional Inequality -- The Chinese Context: Geographical Inequality and Decentralisation in Higher Education -- Geographical Distribution of Higher Education Opportunities, Decentralised Selection and the Recruitment Policy -- Discussion on the National Evidence -- Qualitative Data on the Geographical Inequality -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusions -- The Confucian Meritocracy -- Western Meritocracies -- Meritocracy and Social Stratification -- Meritocracy and Cultural Capital -- Meritocracy and Gender -- Meritocracy and Geographical Stratification -- Meritocracy at the Crossroads -- Bibliography

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