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 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 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…
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…
When Different Types of Education Matter: Effectively Maintained Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Korea. American Behavioral Scientist. Byun Soo-yong, and Park Hyunjoon (2017) Using longitudinal data for a nationally representative sample of ninth graders in South Korea, we examine socioeconomic differences in the likelihood of making transitions into different types Read more…