Yi-Lin Chiang
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU Shanghai
Email
ylc260@nyu.edu
Yi-Lin Chiang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai. Before joining NYU Shanghai, she was Associate Professor of Sociology at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Chiang’s research focuses on educational stratification and intergenerational status transmission in greater China. Her ethnographic work examines the processes and outcomes of elite status transmission. In other lines of research, she uses Taiwanese panel data to explore how schools and families contribute to educational inequality. Her book, Study Gods (Princeton University Press), received the Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education from the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association.
Select Publications
- Chiang, Yi-Lin and Ran Liu. 2024. "Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income." Social Science Research 119: 103000.
- Chiang, Yi-Lin. 2024. "Conditioned by the system: Student selection and parental involvement in high school admissions in Taiwan." Chinese Sociological Review (2024): 1-25.
- Chiang, Yi-Lin. 2022. Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Chiang, Yi-Lin. 2021. "Exams or Applications? Elite Taiwanese Students’ Perceptions and Navigation of College Admissions Systems.” The International Journal of Comparative Sociology 63(1-2):30-50.
- Chiang, Yi-Lin. 2018. “When Things Don't Go as Planned: Cultural Capital and Parental Strategies for Elite College Enrollment.” Comparative Education Review 62(4): 503-521.
Education
- PhD, Sociology
University of Pennsylvania - MA, Sociology
University of Pennsylvania - MA, Social Sciences
University of Chicago - BA, Anthropology
National Taiwan University
Research Interests
- Sociology of Education
- Sociology of Family
- Social Stratification
- Elites
Chinese Societies