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 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…
Kim, Ee Sun and Keong Suk Park. 2019. “Life Course of Korean Women: Conflictual Gender Differentiation and Enforced Classification.” ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 122: 138-170. Korean women’s aspirations and practices for gender equality have been increasingly prevalent. However, the foundation of life is growing fragmented according to economic stratification, and family 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…
This study aims to examine how to classify youth’s attitude towards Korean society and the extent to which latent classes of youth’s attitudes toward Korean society are explained by economic status measured by net worth and household income. For these purposes, this study employs latent class analysis by M-Plus and 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…
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…
Have you heard of the “spoon class theory”, a term widely used among online communities in South Korea? It refers to the idea that individual’s success in life solely depends on being born into parents of high socioeconomic status. According to this ‘theory’, the influence of parents’ socioeconomic status on 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…
A Study on Social Mobility across Generations and Inequality of Opportunity Choi, Pil Sun & In Sik Min. 2015. The Journal of Social Science 22(3): 31-56. This paper investigates the social mobility across generations in Korea using Korea Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) 1st～10th waves. We provide a descriptive analysis Read more…