Groupings between floating children and urban children: A Bourdieusian social network analysis of physical and social distance in space

Guanglun Michael Mu

Children and Youth Services Review, 2024, vol. 159, issue C

Abstract: Drawing on Bourdieu’s sociology, the concept of space in particular, this paper discussed the positions and dispositions of floating children in the urban space. It used social network analysis to test the homophily hypothesis that socially similar agents are physically proximate. Data were collected from 45 floating children and urban children in a community school in China. The results rejected the homophily hypothesis, calling for collective activism for small-scale but sociologically meaningful change to disrupt the correspondence between the physical and social distance established through the “site effects” of the hukou (household registration) system.

Keywords: Floating children; Migrant children; Community school; Hukou; Bourdieu; Social space; Social network analysis; Site effects; Homophily (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107520

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