@article{ART002566396},
author={Kim, Su Jung and YoungHwa Cha and SetByol Choi},
title={Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers},
journal={Korean Journal of Sociology},
issn={1225-0120},
year={2020},
volume={54},
number={1},
pages={101-138},
doi={10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim, Su Jung
AU - YoungHwa Cha
AU - SetByol Choi
TI - Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers
JO - Korean Journal of Sociology
PY - 2020
VL - 54
IS - 1
PB - The Korean Sociological Association
SP - 101
EP - 138
SN - 1225-0120
AB - This study explores the cognitive and emotional processes adolescents undergo when setting boundaries for their dreams, and what kind of meanings and influences do class- stratified dreams have for adolescents. Using the 2017 National General Survey on Korean Youth, we conducted a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) to identify the “Dream topography” of Korean adolescents based on social class, as well as 26 in-depth interviews of male and female adolescents to look at specific mechanisms that exist behind the stratified dreams of adolescents. Results indicate that adolescents from the same class share similar dreams and go through a process of selective socialization, while “distinguishing” themselves from those who have different dreams. Adolescents dream a dream that “suits them” by interacting with significant others within the same class-while upper class adolescents aim higher, those in the middle and lower class voluntarily adjust their dreams to be modest based on their family background and the opinions of their peers. This can be seen as a process through which adolescents gain a sense of positions that they fit into, within a stratified society; and rather than simply wishful thinking, the dreams that one’s peers hold may function as a “status marker” of the social position one holds now and will in the future, regardless of whether the dreams come true or not.
KW - adolescents;dreams;status marker;symbolic violence;mixed methods
DO - 10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
ER -
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha and SetByol Choi. (2020). Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers. Korean Journal of Sociology, 54(1), 101-138.
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha and SetByol Choi. 2020, "Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers", Korean Journal of Sociology, vol.54, no.1 pp.101-138. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha, SetByol Choi "Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers" Korean Journal of Sociology 54.1 pp.101-138 (2020) : 101.
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha, SetByol Choi. Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers. 2020; 54(1), 101-138. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha and SetByol Choi. "Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers" Korean Journal of Sociology 54, no.1 (2020) : 101-138.doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung; YoungHwa Cha; SetByol Choi. Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers. Korean Journal of Sociology, 54(1), 101-138. doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung; YoungHwa Cha; SetByol Choi. Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers. Korean Journal of Sociology. 2020; 54(1) 101-138. doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha, SetByol Choi. Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers. 2020; 54(1), 101-138. Available from: doi:10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101
Kim, Su Jung, YoungHwa Cha and SetByol Choi. "Unequal Futures: ‘Dreams’ of Adolescents as Status Markers" Korean Journal of Sociology 54, no.1 (2020) : 101-138.doi: 10.21562/kjs.2020.02.54.1.101