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Moral diversification and moral agency: contesting business ethics among Chinese e-commerce traders

Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of m...

Authors: Linliang Qian

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:21

Content type: Research

Published on: 17 November 2020
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Doing Post-Western sociology in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the Great Change: some epistemological questions

Analyzing the sociology in Central and Eastern Europe before and after the Great Change in 1989, the article aims to present the main epistemological questions that Post-Western sociology raises for the discip...

Authors: Svetla Koleva

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:20

Content type: Research

Published on: 9 November 2020
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Social origin and educational attainment in China: a historical analysis of 70 birth cohorts

The impact of social origin on educational attainment is conditioned on the social context in which people live. In recent decades, with changes in the Chinese society, how has the impact of social origin on e...

Authors: Changchun Fang and Xiaotian Feng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:19

Content type: Research

Published on: 23 October 2020
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Children of the reform and opening-up: China’s new generation and new era of development

China’s new generation, born during the 1980s and 1990s, is a social cohort that has grown up in the era of reform and opening-up. They are simultaneously influenced by and play a critical role in a series of ...

Authors: Chunling Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:18

Content type: Research

Published on: 15 October 2020
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A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea

This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality. With an analysis of the data l...

Authors: Kwang-Yeong Shin

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:17

Content type: Research

Published on: 17 September 2020
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Housing wealth inequality in urban China: the transition from welfare allocation to market differentiation

The differentiation of housing assets is an important embodiment of wealth inequality and is also an important dimension of social stratification. The housing distribution in China has experienced a transition...

Authors: Chunling Li and Yiming Fan

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:16

Content type: Research

Published on: 11 September 2020
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Endurance, identity, and temporality: the ethnic labor market and labor process of Chinese migrant workers in France

Workers in France enjoy strong legal protections of their rights, and they have developed organizational support through unions. However, Chinese immigrant workers suffer from adverse working conditions and ex...

Authors: Juan Du

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:15

Content type: Research

Published on: 20 August 2020
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Occupational status, working conditions, and health: evidence from the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey

This study investigates the relationship between occupational status and health inequality in the working population by analyzing data from the 2012 China Labor Force Dynamics Survey. The results show that ind...

Authors: Yaqiang Qi, Tongxin Liang and Hua Ye

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:14

Content type: Research

Published on: 11 August 2020
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Another way of “amusing ourselves to death”? Experience, ideological fantasy, and labor control in variety entertainment production

Compared with traditional industries, new changes have taken place in the labor process and manufacturing consent in cultural and creative industries. In entertainment labor, managers transform high-intensity ...

Authors: Wenjuan Jia and Kaiou Zhong

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:13

Content type: Research

Published on: 9 August 2020
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Gender role attitudes and male-female income differences in China

By investigating deep-rooted cultural norms, this paper explores whether and how traditional gender role attitudes impact income gaps between men and women and identifies causal effects via instrumental variab...

Authors: Shisong Qing

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:12

Content type: Research

Published on: 8 July 2020
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Early life adversity and health inequality: a dual interaction model

This article examines the impact of early life adversity on health inequality from a life course perspective. We develop a dual interaction model that considers how both the frequency as well as the duration o...

Authors: Zhilei Shi and Cary Wu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:11

Content type: Research

Published on: 6 July 2020
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Socio-economic inequalities in modern Russia and their perception by the population

This paper focuses on the objective situation regarding inequalities and their subjective perception by the population in Russia in recent years. It is shown that socio-economic inequalities are currently perc...

Authors: Svetlana Mareeva

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:10

Content type: Research

Published on: 1 July 2020
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“Mixed” subjective class identity: a new interpretation of Chinese class identity

This article investigates factors influencing the subjective class identity of Chinese people and the bias of this identity using data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010 and 2013. In contrast with ...

Authors: Qi Xu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:9

Content type: Research

Published on: 28 June 2020
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Why workers’ turnover is so high: managed flexibility and the intermediary chain of China’s migrant labor market

Looking at how the global factories organize and control their labor forces sustainably and effectively, a considerable number of studies have focused on the politics of production but have seldom discussed th...

Authors: Zixi Liu and Jianghuafeng Zhu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:8

Content type: Research

Published on: 18 June 2020
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School of golden touch? A study of school effectiveness in improving student academic performance

This paper explores whether different schools exhibit varying levels of effectiveness in improving student academic performance and, if so, which factors might affect school effectiveness. Using data from the ...

Authors: Guihua Xie and Yangyang Zhang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:7

Content type: Research

Published on: 25 May 2020
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Cultural reproduction or cultural mobility? Unequal education achievement among Chinese college students

This article investigates the influence of family class background on college students’ education achievement by using the Beijing College Students Panel Survey. Statistical analyses show that elite class offs...

Authors: Bin Zhu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:6

Content type: Research

Published on: 21 May 2020
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Investigating the longitudinal interrelationship between housework time and market earnings: disentangling between-person from within-person effects

The work-to-family hypothesis and the family-to-work hypothesis provide alternate explanations for the housework-earnings relationship. This study examines these competing theoretical perspectives and explores...

Authors: Meng Sha Luo and Ernest Chui

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:5

Content type: Research

Published on: 6 May 2020
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Class structure and income inequality in transitional China

Integrating Kornai’s concept of coordination mechanism and Weber’s types of domination, the author argues that, based on the different property rights embedded within the state power structure, bureaucratic an...

Authors: Xin Liu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:4

Content type: Research

Published on: 24 March 2020
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Market disputes and government intervention: an explanatory framework of risk transformation

This article examines the government intervention in market governance, that is, why a local government that claims to be a rule maker or market regulator would intervene deeply in transaction disputes between...

Authors: Jinglin Xiang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:3

Content type: Research

Published on: 5 March 2020
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Duration matters: peer effects on academic achievement with random assignment in the Chinese context

This paper goes beyond the most popular perspective of family social capital among existing research and examines the effect of peer social capital on adolescent academic achievement. Using the official data f...

Authors: Cheng Cheng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:2

Content type: Research

Published on: 13 February 2020
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Educating the new Chinese middle-class youth: the role of quality education on ideas of class and status

This article attempts to answer the questions: “Why is quality education so important for the new Chinese middle class and what implications does quality education have on ideas of status and social standing?”...

Authors: Arianna Ponzini

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2020 7:1

Content type: Research

Published on: 23 January 2020
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Status constraint and lifestyle transition: a latent class analysis of health-related lifestyles among different social strata in China

The present study uses data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to develop a multidimensional measure for the healthiness of Chinese citizens’ lifestyles. A latent class analysis reveals variety in C...

Authors: Fuqin Wang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:23

Content type: Research

Published on: 30 December 2019
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Inequality of healthy life expectancy for the Chinese elderly and its trend

In this study, we use long-term follow-up survey data to explore the inequality of the healthy life expectancy among the elderly and the trends of such expectancy among different birth cohorts and at different...

Authors: Kaishan Jiao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:22

Content type: Research

Published on: 21 November 2019
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Why technology adoption succeeds or fails: an exploration from the perspective of intra-organizational legitimacy

This paper constructs an intra-organizational legitimacy analysis framework to reveal the conditional mechanisms of technology adoption at the organization level. A retrospective look on a 9-year application p...

Authors: Min Ren

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:21

Content type: Research

Published on: 12 November 2019
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Correction to: Precarious work and labor market segmentation: a comparative study on mainland China and Hong Kong

In the original publication of this article (Li 2019), there is an error in the last paragraph of the “Precarious work and labor market segmentation” section.

Authors: Jun Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:20

Content type: Correction

Published on: 29 October 2019

The original article was published in The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:17
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Consequences of social mobility on social relationships: a case study of successful rural migrants in Beijing

The impact of social mobility on social relationships is a neglected area of mobility studies in China. Drawing on intensive interviews with 30 migrant families in Beijing, this research aims to investigate th...

Authors: Na Liu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:19

Content type: Research

Published on: 23 October 2019
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Organizational imprinting and the welfare practice of Chinese state-owned enterprises

Drawing on a survey of randomly selected firms from 12 representative Chinese cities, we analyze the differences between Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs in their organizational welfare prac...

Authors: Yi Han and Enying Zheng

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:18

Content type: Research

Published on: 12 August 2019
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Precarious work and labor market segmentation: a comparative study on mainland China and Hong Kong

The world-wide growth of precarious work has created a new type of labor market segmentation and calls for cross-society comparison study. Mainland China and Hong Kong facilitate such a comparison, since the t...

Authors: Jun Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:17

Content type: Research

Published on: 6 August 2019

The Correction to this article has been published in The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:20
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Loneliness in the elderly in Mexico, challenges to the public policies

The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL 2018) reports that 7.8% of the population in Mexico is 65 years old or older. Approximately 41.1% of this population lives in pover...

Authors: María Montero-López Lena, Diego Luna-Bazaldúa and Laura Ann Shneidman

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:16

Content type: Research

Published on: 30 July 2019
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Housing Reform, Life Course and Urban Housing Acquisition (1980-2010)

Based on data from the Guangzhou Household Survey in 2010 and event history model, this paper analyzes how the interactions between the housing marketization reform and individual life course affect Chinese ci...

Authors: Kaize Wu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:15

Content type: Research

Published on: 25 July 2019
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Labor control and task autonomy under the sharing economy: a mixed-method study of drivers’ work

This mixed-method study analyzes the labor process and labor supply of drivers on a Chinese mobile-travel platform. Different from the control of the traditional labor process, such platforms have a more-fragm...

Authors: Qingjun Wu and Zhen Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:14

Content type: Research

Published on: 23 July 2019
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A spatial analysis of precariousness and the gender wage gap in Mexico, 2005–2018

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the USA (1994–2018) has led to a reorganization of the productive structure of Mexico’s 32 metropolitan areas, affecting what jobs ar...

Authors: Roldán Andrés-Rosales, Lukasz Czarnecki and Miguel Ángel Mendoza-González

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:13

Content type: Research

Published on: 15 July 2019
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A longitudinal study of social lag: regional inequalities of growth in Mexico 2000 to 2015

Social lag is an indicator that measures social development in Mexico. The institutions in charge of measuring poverty require studies for measuring the extent to which social programs are efficient to combat ...

Authors: Delfino Vargas-Chanes and Servando Valdés-Cruz

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:12

Content type: Research

Published on: 12 July 2019
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Big data research guided by sociological theory: a triadic dialogue among big data analysis, theory, and predictive models

Computational social science has integrated social science theories and methodology with big data analysis. It has opened a number of new topics for big data analysis and enabled qualitative and quantitative s...

Authors: Jar-Der Luo, Jifan Liu, Kunhao Yang and Xiaoming Fu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:11

Content type: Methodology

Published on: 5 July 2019
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Global market and income gaps between industries: evidence from finance industry and manufacturing industry

The income gap among industries in China is usually explained by the theory of segmented labor market. However, this perspective cannot explain why the finance industry has the highest average income among the...

Authors: Xue Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:10

Content type: Research

Published on: 3 July 2019
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Self-rated health among elders in different outmigration areas—a case study of rural Anhui, China

China has been a rapid growing economy in recent decades. Part of its economic development engine comes from internal rural-urban migration. The decades-long rural-urban migration is the result of China’s long...

Authors: Weizhen Dong

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:9

Content type: Research

Published on: 2 July 2019
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“Purchasing hope”: the consumption of children’s education in urban China

Children’s education has become an important part of urban family consumption, and the rapid expansion of private tutoring schools and supplemental lessons has constituted a big part of the children’s educatio...

Authors: Xiaoshan Lin

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:8

Content type: Research

Published on: 18 June 2019
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Becoming new urbanites: residents’ self-identification and sense of community in ‘village-turned-community’

In the process of rapid urbanization, the Chinese have seen the disappearance of a large number of villages and the emergence of ‘village-turned-community’. Many peasants move into newly built communities and ...

Authors: Ying Wu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:7

Content type: Research

Published on: 5 June 2019
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Who is more motivated to learn? The roles of family background and teacher-student interaction in motivating student learning

Scholars generally agree that family socioeconomic status significantly influences student engagement and motivation in school learning. Yet, teachers are key adults who play an equally important role in deter...

Authors: Ran Liu and Yi-Lin Chiang

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:6

Content type: Research

Published on: 15 April 2019
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Understanding leisure satisfaction of Chinese seniors: human capital, family capital, and community capital

This study investigates the impacts of human capital, family capital, and community capital on Chinese seniors’ leisure satisfaction. One thousand seniors living in five Chinese cities participated in this qua...

Authors: Chenchen Huang and Ying Li

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:5

Content type: Research Article

Published on: 27 February 2019
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The cultural dilemma in the process of uniting Chinese and Western medicine from 1940 to 1950

This article examines the medical policy discourse of the Communist Party of China (CPC) between 1940 and 1950 that witnessed the preliminary achievement of the policy of cooperation between Chinese and Wester...

Authors: Qing Liu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:4

Content type: Research

Published on: 8 February 2019
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Land endowment and education investment behavior of rural households: a field survey based on 887 administrative villages in 31 provinces of China

This paper analyzes the influence of land endowment possessed by the rural household on education decisions under the condition of insufficient rural land circulation and rural labor transfer. Results show tha...

Authors: Ye Yang and Yan Xu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:3

Content type: Research

Published on: 8 February 2019
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Do deep pockets have more political influence?—the size of private enterprises and their strategy selection in resolving administrative disputes

Fitting multivariate models to the China Private Enterprises Survey (2006) data, this article reveals the differentiation of state-business relationship as a function of a private enterprise’s economic capital...

Authors: Yingying Ji and Xiaoguang Fan

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:2

Content type: Research

Published on: 10 January 2019
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Economic growth and subjective well-being: analyzing the formative mechanism of Easterlin Paradox

In this paper, we investigate the formative mechanism of the Easterlin paradox in China using 2010 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) data. By establishing a multi-factor, multi-level dynamic framework, we u...

Authors: Lulu Li and Lei Shi

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2019 6:1

Content type: Research

Published on: 3 January 2019
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From individual social capital to collective social capital: empirical evidence from inter-firm financing trust network

The paper proposes two theoretical hypotheses about how collective social capital is constructed based on the operation of individual social capital in Chinese context: the logic of particularist guanxi operation...

Authors: Bao Wu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:18

Content type: Research

Published on: 18 December 2018
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Accounting for tastes: do low-income populations have a higher preference for spicy foods?

Based on the Theory of Rational Addiction (TORA), this paper uses the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data to identify the correlation between income and preference for spicy foods. Results show that ...

Authors: Chao Ma, Ze Song, Xueling Yan and Guangchuan Zhao

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:17

Content type: Research

Published on: 24 November 2018
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Marriage and parenthood preferences among college students in China

Using data from a recent survey of Chinese college students, this study examines the contextual factors associated with young adults’ preferences for marriage and parenthood. The analyses demonstrate that fema...

Authors: Sampson Lee Blair and Timothy J. Madigan

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:16

Content type: Research

Published on: 30 October 2018
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How can cultural sociology help us understand contemporary Chinese society?

In this editorial for the Thematic Series: Cultural Sociology and China, we discuss the global growth of cultural sociology as a sociological sub-discipline, its current state and future prospects in mainland ...

Authors: Amy Tsang and Michèle Lamont

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:15

Content type: Review

Published on: 25 October 2018
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Marital power, spousal relationship, and intergenerational support

This paper explores the effect of marital power distribution and the spousal relationship on family intergenerational support to older parents using CGSS2006 data. The findings include the following: (1) the m...

Authors: Dandan Zheng and Jinhua Di

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:14

Content type: Research

Published on: 8 October 2018
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How does family background affect children’s educational achievement? Evidence from Contemporary China

Education is a lasting process. Academic performance in primary education plays a crucial role in obtaining further educational opportunities. Thus, it is necessary to examine how family background affects chi...

Authors: Zhonglu Li and Zeqi Qiu

Citation: The Journal of Chinese Sociology 2018 5:13

Content type: Research

Published on: 2 October 2018
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