ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has provided a critical discussion of how Pierre Bourdieu pays insufficient attention to gender and cultural capital, as well as gender and social class. The discussion of gender issues in China and in relation to social class and social stratification is a distinctive topic that is rarely seen in any examination of China's social and education issues. Patriarchal relationships are common in Chinese families, with fathers having a controlling role and mothers taking a servicing one. The main conclusion is that the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital was gendered. It is noticeable that mothers and fathers were positioned very differently in relation to the transmission of cultural capital. Economic perspectives are commonly used to explain the uneven division of labour in terms of household duties within the families.
