Colloquium in September 2024 Youngcho Lee(Pusan National University, Department of Sociology) Previous studies on the gendered division of household labor and responsibilities have characterized mothers as the household managers primarily responsible for mental labor and fathers as ‘helping out’ with physical tasks when asked or given directions. While such a Read more…
Colloquium in May 2023 Youngshin Lim (Researcher, Education Research Institute at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) This study aims to examine how family dissolution rates have changed by class and family norms in Korea in recent ten years. Using the data from Social Survey conducted by Statistics Korea, the study 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 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…
Unequal Pathways to Adulthood: Inequality in Labor Market and Family Formation Opportunities of Young Adults in Korea Kim, Young-mi. 2016. Social Science Review 47(2): 27-52. Equality in opportunity in the early adulthood in terms of labor market chances and family formation is crucial as it pertains to the equality of long-term Read more…
The Prospect and Meaning of Marriage among Unmarried Women in Korea: Heterogeneity across Educational Attainment Groups Lee, Jae Kyung & Bo Hwa Kim. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(4): 41-85. This study examines the prospect and meaning of marriage among Korean unmarried women by focusing on educational differences. In-depth Read more…