作為文化資本身體化的途徑,教養方式具有階層化的特征。中國城市家庭的教養方式在中產階層與工人階層之間已呈現出顯著的差異,前者傾向于協作型教養方式,后者則傾向于自然成長型教養方式。然而,社會流動可以突破這種階層化的教養方式。出身于工人階層家庭并向上流動至中產階層的家長更傾向于采用中產階層的教養方式;而出身于中產階層家庭并經歷了向下流動的家長則在一定程度上保留著出身階層的教養方式。由此可見,社會流動對教養方式的非對稱性效應并不支持中國社會階層趨于固化、壁壘日益森嚴的論斷。

As an embodied cultural capital,parenting practice is class based. InChinese urban families,the middle class incline to adopt the practice of concerted cultivation,while the working class incline to adopt the practice of natural growth.However,those who were born in working-class families but achieved upward mobility to the middle class are more likely to adopt the the middle class practice; those who were born in middle-class families but moved downward are able to pertain some aspects of the middle class practice. The findings of unbalanced reproduction of parenting practice do not support the assumption of solidification of class boundaries in the Chinese society.