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…
Colloquium in Sep. 2017 Im, Dong-Kyun (Professor, Department of Urban Sociology at Univ. of Seoul, South Korea) Based on the attitude toward the social inequality and welfare issues, this research categorizes South Koreans into three groups. With RCA (Relational Class Analysis), the main method of this research, survey respondents’ attitude Read more…
Colloquium in Jun. 2017 Cha, Youngjoo (Professor, Department of Sociology at Indiana Univ., Bloomington, U.S.)
Colloquium in May. 2017 Kye, Bongoh (Professor, Department of Sociology at Kookmin Univ., South Korea) This study introduces some methodological issues of the multi-generational approach in social mobility research.
Colloquium in Apr. 2017 Park, Jeongmi (HK Research Professor, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture at Hanyang Univ., South Korea) This research analyzes how the discourse of ‘Blindly Coming up to Seoul’, which was popular from the late 1950s to the early 1980s in South Korea, helped reproduce gender Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2017 Lee, Sungkyun (Professor, Department of Sociology at Univ. of Ulsan, South Korea) Based on the unemployment insurance database of Korea Employment Information Service, this research analyzes how unemployment insurance maternity protection system affects women workers’ employment retention.
Colloquium in Feb. 2017 Gendered Bodies at Service Work: Studies on the Luxury Hotel Staff Members’ Aesthetic Labor Shim, Seonhui (PhD, Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) Through the qualitative studies, this research analyzes women service workers’ gendered labor. Genderizing Labor: Case Studies on Read more…
Colloquium in Jan. 2017 Lee, Wangwon (PhD in Sociology at Korea Univ., South Korea)