KIRN | Korea Inequality Research Network

Past colloquium

Who becomes an educational innovator?: Preliminary exploration of structural factors in establishing alternative schools in South Korea

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…

By KIRN, 11 months ago

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Cultural legacy of slavery and inequality of social capital: Evidence from the contemporary US

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…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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Populism and Welfare Politics in South Korea

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…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis with Bounding and Interactions

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…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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Discrimination and the Social Structures of Emotion

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…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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Explaining Gender Gap in Political Ideology: Differential Effect of Gender, Feminism and Sexism across Generations in South Korea

Colloquium in July 2023 Ho Youn Koh (Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations, Nazarbayev Univ., Kazakhstan) Since the #MeToo movement and gender-related events in 2018, feminism and generational conflicts have been utilized for political mobilization, making gender and generation an important topic to understand the current politics in Read more…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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An Analysis of the Family Dissolution Trend by Class and Family Norms in Korea, 2012-2022

Colloquium in May 2023 Youngshin Lim (Researcher, Education Research Institute at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) This study aims to examine how family dissolution rates have changed by class and family norms in Korea in recent ten years. Using the data from Social Survey conducted by Statistics Korea, the study Read more…

By KIRN, 2 years ago

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Household Income and Marital Fertility in Korea, 2000-2021

Colloquium in Apr. 2023 Bongoh Kye (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kookmin University, South Korea) In the midst of hyper-low fertility rate in South Korea, this study aims to empirically analyze the association between household income and fertility and explore its implications. Using the data from Family and Fertility Survey Read more…

By KIRN, 2 years ago

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An Empirical Investigation of the Left-Right Political Fertility Gap

Colloquium in Mar. 2023 Sinn Won Han (Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, U.S.) Are the political left less likely to have children than the political right? U.S. society is facing heated political and social debates over which groups have driven recent decreases in the fertility rate, the lowest in 100 years. Read more…

By KIRN, 2 years ago

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The Limited Role of Personal Goal Striving in Status Attainment (Joint Work with Jani Erola)

Colloquium in Feb. 2023 Hye Won Kwon (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku, Finland) Despite evidence of declining intergenerational mobility, recent studies have shown a rising trend of meritocratic belief (e.g., hard work pays off) among American adults. However, as scholarly attention has been focused on the power of adolescent beliefs Read more…

By KIRN, 2 years ago