Journal of East China Normal University(Educational Sciences) ›› 2022, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 57-74.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2022.03.006

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The Elites with Poor and Humble Families:Cultural Reproduction and Resistance in Elite Universities

Tong Xiao   

  1. Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Accepted:2021-11-15 Online:2022-03-01 Published:2022-03-01

Abstract:

School is not only a place for education, but also an important territory for cultural production and social insight. Through the mixed research paradigm, a five-stage stratified random sampling of 1, 013 rural students was conducted. The two-year follow-up survey recorded the resistance strategies of 18 rural students in elite universities and their transition from students to teachers. The research finds that: in the face of the arbitrariness of “General Culture” in elite universities, the sense of justice and value embodied in “study” is constantly impacted. In the interaction of life experience and dominant structure, students carries out more oriented cultural production around the ethical possibility space of rural “Duty Sense”. When students become teachers and assume the function of “relaisecram” of social reproduction, accompanied by the dangerous leap from “morality” to “rationality” of its survival ethics, "Duty Sense" is once again transferred into the ideology of the school through the civilizing power between social succession, and become the symbol of their conversion to the system.

Key words: cultural reproduction, resistance theory, elite university, rural students