Abstract
In order to facilitate collective decision making and breed productivity, it is important to ensure societies operate in a fair and just manner. Chinese literature has a propensity of relying on sociological theories from the modern West, prompting the review essay to address theories of capital, social mobility, cultural preferences and otherwise based on leading western literature. This review essay addresses how an increase in social mobility of those from lower social origins results in cultural homelessness and social dislocation, in relations to the experiences of psychosocial harms. As per western studies, the review essay examines the extent of cultural homelessness, social dislocation and psychosocial harms faced by upwardly mobilising cohorts in Hong Kong and China. To conclude, the essay argues upwardly mobilising cohorts in Hong Kong and China are likely to experience cultural homelessness, and the corresponding cohorts in China face salient problems of social dislocation. The encounters of cultural and social dilemmas are associated with the experiences of psychosocial harms for both populations.
Highlights
Fairness and justice are overarching factors in human enhancement, in terms of biological, psychological, or social attributes
In Hong Kong, the receipt of higher education is significantly correlated to family background
It is undeniable that increasing social mobility creates corresponding opportunities to improve reserves of cultural, social and economic capital
Summary
Fairness and justice are overarching factors in human enhancement, in terms of biological, psychological, or social attributes. Chinese literature fails to assess whether increasing social mobility is a prominent factor in maintaining a fair and just operation of society. The shortage of these rights or freedom in mainland China makes it necessary to understand whether increasing social mobility of the relatively disadvantaged cohorts in Hong Kong and mainland China results in distinct levels of fairness and justice. Among Hong Kong and mainland Chinese citizens of lower social origins, upward mobility may help accumulate more cultural, social, and especially economic capital. This article argues a fair and just societal system cannot be realised by entitling more opportunities for upward mobility to those from lower social origins in both Hong Kong and mainland Chinese contexts. The article concludes why increasing social mobility for relatively disadvantaged population results in cultural, social, psychological and mental harms on them, in part, because of their lower social origins
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