Negotiating Work and Family Life in South Korea : Class Differences among Working Women Journal of Korean Women’s Studies. Lee Jae-Kyung, Lee Euna, and Cho Joo-Eun (2006) In this study, we tried to analyze the experiences and differences of the work and family life among married women workers and also Read more…
When Different Types of Education Matter: Effectively Maintained Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Korea. American Behavioral Scientist. Byun Soo-yong, and Park Hyunjoon (2017) Using longitudinal data for a nationally representative sample of ninth graders in South Korea, we examine socioeconomic differences in the likelihood of making transitions into different types Read more…
Bridge or Trap? Labor Market Structure and the Transitions from Contingent to Permanent Employment Korean Journal of Management. Jung Dong-Il, Kwon Seeon-Won (2016) With a burgeoning interest in understanding the nature of contingent work, scholars have begun to tackle such issues as workforce divide and emerging form of labor relations. Read more…
Distributional Approach to the Changes in Gender Wage Gap in Korea, 1982～2004. Economy and Society. Kim Young-Mi (2009) This study utilizes the relative distribution method developed by Hancock and Morris (1998), and analyzes the process of closing gender wage gap in Korea using “Basic Survey on Wage Structure”, 1982～2004. The Read more…
Colloquium in Sep. 2017 Im, Dong-Kyun (Professor, Department of Urban Sociology at Univ. of Seoul, South Korea) Based on the attitude toward the social inequality and welfare issues, this research categorizes South Koreans into three groups. With RCA (Relational Class Analysis), the main method of this research, survey respondents’ attitude Read more…
Colloquium in Jun. 2017 Cha, Youngjoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Indiana Univ., Bloomington, U.S.)
Colloquium in May. 2017 Kye, Bongoh (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kookmin Univ., South Korea) This study introduces some methodological issues of the multi-generational approach in social mobility research.
Colloquium in Apr. 2017 Park, Jeongmi (HK Research Professor, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang Univ., South Korea) This research analyzes how the discourse of ‘Blindly Coming up to Seoul’, which was popular from the late 1950s to the early 1980s in South Korea, helped reproduce gender Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2017 Lee, Sungkyun (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Ulsan, South Korea) Based on the unemployment insurance database of Korea Employment Information Service, this research analyzes how unemployment insurance maternity protection system affects women workers’ employment retention.
Colloquium in Feb. 2017 Gendered Bodies at Service Work: Studies on the Luxury Hotel Staff Members’ Aesthetic Labor Shim, Seonhui (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) Through the qualitative studies, this research analyzes women service workers’ gendered labor. Genderizing Labor: Case Studies on Read more…