‘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…
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…
Colloquium in Nov. 2017 Lee, Dohoon (Professor, Department of Sociology at Yonsei Univ., South Korea) Using data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (CNLSY), this study examines whether and how childhood (ages 5-14) trajectories of parenting quality affect children’s high school graduation. To do so, Read more…
Special seminars with Professor Grusky (Professor of Sociology; Director, Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford Univ.) were held at Yonsei Univ. on Nov. 13-14, 2017 by KIRN and ‘BK21 Plus: Social Solidarity & Coexistence’ from Sociology Department at Yonsei Univ. With the topic of “Can Big Data Eliminate Poverty?”, Read more…
Special seminars with Professor Grusky (Professor of Sociology; Director, Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford Univ.) were held at Yonsei Univ. on Nov. 13-14, 2017 by KIRN and ‘BK21 Plus: Social Solidarity & Coexistence’ from Sociology Department at Yonsei Univ. With the topic of “Inequality and the American Dream” Read more…
Colloquium in Oct. 2017 Choi, Seongsoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea) Based on the data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this research analyzes the role of marriage in intergenerational economic mobility among the group born in the U.S. in 1950 to 1975. The research Read more…