Colloquium in February 2026 Sang-soo Chang (Sunchon University) Meritocracy is not a concept that explains the inequality, but an ideology that justifies it. Industrial society is not as meritocratic as we might think, a fact that can be proven logically and empirically. Empirical data show that meritocracies in Western Europe, Read more…
Colloquium in December 2025 Young-Mi (Yonsei University) This study analyzes changes in the sorting structure between occupations and firms in the Korean labor market. While the importance of firm effects in wage inequality trends has been confirmed in previous studies (Lee Byung-hee, 2023), the structure in which occupation and firm Read more…
Colloquium in November 2024 Won-tae Koh (CLIO Institute for Social Development Studies, Yonsei University) This study explores the possibility that the recent increase in premarital pregnancies may reflect differential demographic behaviors across social strata and examines whether this serves as a pathway for intergenerational inequality reproduction. Analysis using The Panel Read more…
Colloquium in September 2023 Jiwon Lee (Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell Population Center, Cornell Univ., USA) This article uses the example of voter turnout in US presidential elections to compare two new methods for age, period, and cohort (APC) analysis: the APC interaction model and the APC bounding analysis. While discussing the Read more…
Colloquium in July 2023 Ho Youn Koh (Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Int’l Relations, Nazarbayev Univ., Kazakhstan) Since the #MeToo movement and gender-related events in 2018, feminism and generational conflicts have been utilized for political mobilization, making gender and generation an important topic to understand the current politics in Read more…
Colloquium in Sept. 2022 Chang, Han Il (Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations at Kookmin Univ., South Korea) Using survey data collected in 2021 and 2022, this study analyzes gender differences in authoritarian attitudes between the young (born after 1980) and the middle-aged (born in the year between Read more…
Colloquium in Jun. 2022 Hwang, Jisoo (Professor, College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National Univ., South Korea) This study analyzes trends in cohort fertility in South Korea. With census and vital statistics data, the study analyzes the fertility-related intensive margin (timing of childbearing and number of children) and extensive margin Read more…
Colloquium in June 2021 Choi, Seongsoo (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.) and Youngshin Lim (PhD Student, Dept. of Education at Seoul National Univ.) How have family background gaps in primary and secondary school students’ academic achievement changed in Korea? To answer the question, based on the total 11 Read more…
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…