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…
Colloquium in Mar. 2019 Park, Hyunjoon (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) Based on the data from 1990 and 2010 Korean Census, this study analyzes how the decline in marriage rates during the recent 20 years in Korea is associated with the convergence in women and men’s Read more…
Colloquium in Dec. 2018 Qian, Yue (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Based on the data of 3,000 female and 3,000 male users of a popular Chinese dating website living in Shanghai, China, this study analyzes how their preferences for age hyper-gamy (male partner older than Read more…
Colloquium in Nov. 2018 Youm, Yoosik (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.) This study claims that social interactions could be explained by the interactions between the individuals’ brains, seeing the human brain as one of the main mechanisms to analyze social activities. It has been known that the size Read more…
Colloquium in Oct. 2018 Lee, Chul-Sung (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Sogang Univ.) Based on ‘Household Income Trends’ in 1990~2016, this study analyzes how wealth inequality has increased in Korean society. According to the analysis, cohorts born in the 1930s~40s and the 1970s~80s show especially a high level of wealth inequality Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2018 Yoon, Jayoung (Professor, Dept. of Economics at Chungnam National Univ.) This study analyzes how women workers’ status in the labor market is associated with their access to childbirth and childcare leave, based on Korean Labor and Income Panel Study data. According to the analysis, the lower women workers’ income level, the less likely Read more…
Colloquium in Aug. 2018 Kim, Yujin (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Kangwon National Univ.) This study analyzes whether and how cognitive aging patterns vary across cohorts in Korea, especially with a focus on their gender differences. The analysis is based on a 5,270 sample from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging data which biannually surveyed Koreans aged 45 or Read more…