Identity and Social Networks - A Case of Chinese Graduate Students in the United States

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students' new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Identity and Social Networks

Chapter 2: Context

Chapter 3: Religious Identity and Sociocultural Environments

Chapter 4: Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Network, and the Sociocultural Link between Ethnic and Student Identities

Chapter 5: Evolution of Networks and Multiple Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and Family (Group and Role) Identities

About the author

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang is assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Central Washington University.

Summary

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang examines the interaction between identity and the social network of relations through interviews with 60 U.S. graduate students from mainland China. She argues the students’ new religious and ethnic identities and old family and partner identities shape and are shaped by their networks.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Zhang, Cynthia Baiqing Zhang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781498546577
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4657-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to Asian American people