‘2018 ISA (International Sociological Association) RC28 (Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility) Spring Meeting’, Korea Inequality Research Network participated in as one of the organizers, was held at Yonsei University, Seoul from May 25 to May 27, 2018. In the meeting with the topic of “Rethinking Social Inequality Read more…
Joint Seminar for Sociology Graduate Students from Yonsei Univ. & Univ. of Pennsylvania (May 2018) Ho, Phoebe (PhD Student, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) This study analyzes how young adults’ trajectories of residential independence vary in the U.S. by race/ethnicity as well as within the group of Asian Read more…
Colloquium in Apr. 2018 Lee, Seung-yoon (Professor, Dept. of Social Welfare at Ewha Womans Univ.) The concept and background of ‘basic income’, along with the ways to implement it in reality were discussed. The basic income has been introduced as one of the alternative welfare systems to reflect today’s socioeconomic Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2018 Cho, Eunjoo (Professor, Myongji Univ.) This research is part of a qualitative longitudinal study conducted since 2016, as to analyze how parents’ socio-economic status and residential characteristics can influence children’s possibility of social mobility. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations with 15 students in a Read more…
The Effect of Organizational Culture, Mentoring, and Social Network on Career Success of Managerial Women Lim, Hee Jung. 2009. Korean Organization & Management Studies 33(4): 95-120. In Korea, the proportion of women in management is exceptionally small and a variety of barriers are placed in the women’s routes to career Read more…
Korean’s Work-Family Balance Policy during 1990 and 2014 from the Perspective of Defamiliarization, Decommodification: Especially Focusing on Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, and Childcare Policies Jeon, Yoon-Jeon. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(3): 179-218. This study aimed at looking into the developments of Korea’s work-family balance policy during the period Read more…
The Glass Ceiling in the Korean Public Service Lee, Joo-Hee, Young-Hee Han, Hyun-Jung Sung, and Jung In. 2007. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 23(3): 79-115. This study investigates barriers that delay and/or hinder equitable promotion of women public servants in Korean central and local governments, based on in-depth interviews with Read more…
Colloquium in Feb. 2018 KAMOS (Korean Academic Multimode Open Survey for Social Science), which has been conducted three times a year since 2016 with a financial support of National Research Foundation of Korea, and researches using its data were discussed in this conference. First, Professor Sun-Jae Hwang (Chungnam National Univ.) Read more…
Colloquium in Jan. 2018 Park, Hyunjoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) This research analyzes how family behaviors such as marriage, divorce, and child-rearing in South Korea have changed, and how the pattern of this change is different between the low and the high educated. According to Read more…
A Study on Social Mobility across Generations and Inequality of Opportunity Choi, Pil Sun & In Sik Min. 2015. The Journal of Social Science 22(3): 31-56. This paper investigates the social mobility across generations in Korea using Korea Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) 1st～10th waves. We provide a descriptive analysis Read more…