Devenir adulte dans la société chinoise postsocialiste. Une quête de sens au prisme des parcours de vie de jeunes adultes résidant à Beijing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores the meaning of the transition to adulthood in post-socialist China. Based on a mixed methods survey conducted in Beijing between 2012 and 2014, it examines how the transition to adulthood has changed during the Chinese transition to market economy. Qualitative data, 45 in-depth interviews (F=25 and M=20), shed light on how young adults (aged 19-36 years) view adulthood. Quantitative analyses (N= 915) inform on cross cohort variations in the timing of the pathway to adulthood. The transition to adulthood of 615 people born between 1980 and 1985 (F=290 and H=325), and 300 people born between 1950 and 1959 (F=151 and H=149) was reconstructed by the means of a life course matrix. The first part of the article opens with a conceptual discussion and a comparative overview of changes in the transition to adulthood since the 1980s. After having introduced the Chinese context, the second part outlines the methodological design developed to collect the qualitative and quantitative data. The third part of the article highlights a postponement in the timing of the transition to adulthood. The last part of the article reveals that, contrary to Western countries in which individualistic criteria such as financial independence, independent decision-making and a sense of responsibility are ranked first in the meaning given by young people to the transition to adulthood, Chinese young adults give a pivotal importance to family roles and responsibilities. It also uncovers that these roles and responsibilities imply different consequences for men and women’s paths to adulthood.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".