Colloquium in Jan. 2020 Shin, Kwang-Yeong (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) Professor Shin discussed the limitations of sociological research on class inequality in South Korea, in the midst of such changes as globalization, technological advances, low-fertility, aging, and a rise of single households. Especially he pointed out that Read more…
Most Korean research on gender divisions of housework focuses on married couples. This article extends this literature to examine gender differences in housework across living arrangements and marital status, with particular focus on during transition into adulthood. This study examines the amount and composition of domestic work performed by those Read more…
This study aims to examine how to classify youth’s attitude towards Korean society and the extent to which latent classes of youth’s attitudes toward Korean society are explained by economic status measured by net worth and household income. For these purposes, this study employs latent class analysis by M-Plus and Read more…
Colloquium in Nov. 2019 Choi, Seongsoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Yonsei University) With ISEAD (International Sibsize and Educational Attainment Database), the data from 26 low-fertility countries of cohorts born in the 1910s through in the 1980s, this study analyzes how the association between sibship size and educational attainment differs Read more…
This study attempts to calculate the decent level of income for youth through examination of the ‘living expense’ level based on the current household expenditure and consumption expenditure of the youth, utilizing the 2014 raw data of ‘Household Income and Expenditure Survey’ by Statistics Korea. Based on our analysis, we Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2019 Kim, Jae-Kwang (Professor, Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, U.S.) In this presentation, ‘survey data integration’ was defined as “combining separate sample surveys into one survey vehicle.” Statistical methods for the data integration and their limitations, along with the examples of actual research using the Read more…
Colloquium in July 2019 Lee, Yewon Andrea (PhD Student, Department of Sociology at UCLA, U.S.) Based on ethnography and comparative history analysis, this study explores how the self-employed tenants in Seoul, South Korea have resisted their lessors in alliance with one another. According to the research, it is their shared experience Read more…
Colloquium in June 2019 Fuller, Sylvia (Professor, Department of Sociology at UBC, Canada) As one of the main factors in motherhood wage penalties, this study calls for attention to a situation that mothers are overly represented in the low-income establishments in Canada, based on the data from Statistics Canada Workplace Read more…
Yonsei-UPenn Joint Graduate Students Workshop was held at Yonsei University on June 7th, 2019. On the topics of family, welfare, and education, the total six studies were presented by graduate students from Yonsei University, Seoul National University, and University of Pennsylvania. The presentations were followed by the workshop participants’ questions and Read more…
Colloquium in May 2019 Yodanis, Carrie (Professor, Department of Sociology at UBC, Canada) Individualization, valuing individual’s unique identities and freedom over social rules, is often regarded as one of the main elements in the Western, especially U.S. culture. However, in Americans’ everyday lives, it is difficult to find evidence for individualization Read more…