Race/Ethnicity | Korea Inequality Research Network

Past colloquium

From Growing Disadvantages to Strategic Adaptation: The Permanent Evolution of Asian American Men’s Socioeconomic Status, 1940 to 2018—22

Colloquium in March 2025 ChangHwan Kim (University of Kansas, Department of Sociology) Stereotypical images of Asian Americans have shifted from unassimilable aliens to the Model Minority, and Strategic Adaptation has been proposed as a key mechanism of their success. However, few studies have explored the origins and evolution of Strategic Read more…

By KIRN, 3 weeks ago

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Cultural legacy of slavery and inequality of social capital: Evidence from the contemporary US

Colloquium in November 2023 Harris Kim (Professor, Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, South Korea) Conventional wisdom has it that social capital provides certain advantages or benefits and that differential access to it partly accounts for unequal distribution of material rewards and other outcomes. Indeed, a large and growing literature Read more…

By KIRN, 1 year ago

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A Paradox of White Privilege? Race, Environmental Context, and Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19

Colloquium in Mar. 2022 Kim, Harris Hyun-Soo (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Ewha Womans Univ., South Korea) and Yool Choi (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Chung-Ang Univ., South Korea) This study examines the role of environmental contexts in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using multilevel models, the study Read more…

By KIRN, 3 years ago

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Community-Based Participatory Research to Promote Health among Immigrants and Racial/Ethnic Minorities

Colloquium in Oct. 2021 Jang, Sou Hyun (Professor, Department of Sociology at Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea) There has been a plethora of research to reduce health disparities with various research methods. In the current presentation, I introduce community-based participatory research (CBPR) and how it differs from the traditional research methods. Read more…

By KIRN, 3 years ago

Past colloquium

Grandparenting and Mortality: How Does Race-Ethnicity Matter?

Colloquium in May 2021 Choi, Seung-won Emily (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Texas Tech Univ.) This study examines the relationship between caring for grandchildren (i.e., grandparenting) and mortality risk and how the link differs by race-ethnicity in the United States. Drawing from the Health and Retirement Read more…

By KIRN, 4 years ago

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Race/Ethnicity and Young Adults’ Trajectories of Residential Independence: Heterogeneity among Asian Americans

Joint Seminar for Sociology Graduate Students from Yonsei Univ. & Univ. of Pennsylvania (May 2018) Ho, Phoebe (PhD Student, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) This study analyzes how young adults’ trajectories of residential independence vary in the U.S. by race/ethnicity as well as within the group of Asian Read more…

By KIRN, 7 years ago