Long-term Trends of the Extractive and Redistributive State Capacity in South Korea, 1960-2020

Colloquium in April 2020 Shin, Jin-Wook (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) Recently the extractive and redistributive state capacity has been given greater attention as expected to alleviate class inequalities, which become critical problems in many industrialized societies. This study analyzes how the extractive and redistributive state capacity in Read more…

Cohort Trends in the Association between Sibship Size and Educational Attainment in 26 Low-Fertility Countries

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…

Survey Data Integration

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…

Precarious Workers in the Speculative City: The Untold Gentrification Story of Tenant Shopkeepers’ Displacement and Resistance in Seoul

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…