Colloquium in June 2024 Da Eun Kwan (Doctor, Population Policy Lab, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea) This study aims to examine childcare network formation focusing on two cities, Seoul and Sejong City, in South Korea drawing on mixed methods. The presence of supportive social networks should Read more…
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…
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…
Colloquium in Aug. 2021 Suh, Hyungjun (Professor, School of Sociology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia) This study investigates the conceptualization of housing inequality, and its impacts on subjective wellbeing and perceived social support in the context of post-socialist countries. As one of the ways Read more…
Colloquium in Nov. 2018 Youm, Yoosik (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Yonsei Univ.) This study claims that social interactions could be explained by the interactions between the individuals’ brains, seeing the human brain as one of the main mechanisms to analyze social activities. It has been known that the size Read more…