Colloquium in May 2021 Choi, Seung-won Emily (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Texas Tech Univ.) This study examines the relationship between caring for grandchildren (i.e., grandparenting) and mortality risk and how the link differs by race-ethnicity in the United States. Drawing from the Health and Retirement Read more…
Colloquium in Apr. 2021 Jung, Gowoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kyung Hee Univ.) This study analyzes how young women construct their feminist identity in relation to participation in the ‘corset-free movement’ in South Korea, based on its online in-depth interviews with 40 women students in their early 20s, mostly Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2021 Chung, Inkwan (Professor, Department of Information Sociology at Soongsil Univ.) This research is a cross-national study of changes in intergenerational social mobility in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. With social survey data on these countries in the early 1990s through the early 2010s, the study analyzes changes in Read more…
Colloquium in Dec. 2020 Yun, Jiyoung (Attorney at Law, GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation) This presentation is on how women workers’ working conditions in South Korea have been changed by COVID-19, based on presenter’s counseling experiences with Korean women employees this year. With her counseling cases in which many Korean Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2020 Kye, Bongoh (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kookmin Univ.), Young-Mi Kim (Professor, Department of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.), and Jihye Lee (National Health Insurance Service) Using the National Health Insurance micro-data from 2002 to 2018, this study analyzes whether there is any relationship between fertility and Read more…
Colloquium in Aug. 2020 Kim, ChangHwan (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Kansas) and Kim, Andrew Taeho (PhD Student, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Kansas) Using the Household Income and Expenditure data from 1999 through 2019, this study verified debate on whether between-age-group income inequality was motivating income Read more…
Colloquium in May 2020 Lee, Min-Ah (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) This study analyzes how subjective well-being is associated with gender and fear of crime in South Korea, with multi-variate regression analysis of 2016 Korean General Social Survey data. According to the analysis, Koreans’ subjective well-being is negatively Read more…
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…
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…
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…