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…
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…
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…
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…
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…