Colloquium in May 2024 Ohjae Gowen (Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, US) In the recent discussion on the “gender revolution,” the challenges dual-earner parents face in balancing work and family have been identified as the primary cause of gender inequalities. It has also been argued that the revolution Read more…
Colloquium in April 2024 Keunbok Lee (Researcher, Gyeonggi Research Institute, South Korea) In South Korea, the belief that children cannot achieve the same level of socioeconomic success as their parents’ generation has been widely spread. The sense of helplessness stemming from entrenched inequalities in life opportunities, coupled with the belief Read more…
Colloquium in March 2024 Jung In (Postdoc, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Globally, it has been observed that grandparents often step in to address childcare needs arising from the prevalence of double-income families among younger adults. This form of parental assistance significantly affects the life events of their Read more…
Colloquium in February 2024 Haram Jeon (Professor, Department of Education, Chonnam National University, South Korea) To explore the implications of disparities in early childhood education for later educational inequalities, this study investigates the relationship between students’ academic achievements, their family backgrounds, and their early childhood education experiences. To address this Read more…
Colloquium in January 2024 Juyeon Park (Professor, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, South Korea) Using interviews with 74 Korean undergraduate students at ten elite U.S. colleges, I explore how intersections of gender and class decide who pursues transnational mobility and cosmopolitan life more successfully. Men from highly-transnational families tried to Read more…
Colloquium in December 2023 Kyungmin Baek (Professor, Department of Information Sociology, Soongsil Univ., South Korea) In Korea, alternative education emerged in the late 1990s. It is widely acknowledged that, in comparison to conventional education, alternative education provides a more varied curriculum tailored to individual student needs in a more egalitarian Read more…
Colloquium in November 2023 Harris Kim (Professor, Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, South Korea) Conventional wisdom has it that social capital provides certain advantages or benefits and that differential access to it partly accounts for unequal distribution of material rewards and other outcomes. Indeed, a large and growing literature Read more…
Colloquium in October 2023 Juho Kim (Professor, Department of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea) This study addresses the question of whether populism in South Korea is a mere construct of terminology and discourse, rather than a tangible political phenomenon. If this hypothesis holds true, how can we explain this Read more…
Colloquium in September 2023 Jiwon Lee (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Population Center, Cornell Univ., USA) This article uses the example of voter turnout in US presidential elections to compare two new methods for age, period, and cohort (APC) analysis: the APC interaction model and the APC bounding analysis. While discussing the Read more…
Colloquium in August 2023 Joohee Lee (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Ewha Womans Univ., South Korea) While a significant amount of research has been undertaken regarding discrimination, there has been limited understanding of its impact on those being discriminated against. A prominent characteristic of discrimination in Korea is the devaluation of Read more…