動態追蹤

2011年5月31日 星期二

中研院社會所6/3「週五論壇」、6/7(二)「午餐演講」及6/10(五)「學術演講」

中研院社會所6/3「週五論壇」公告

講 題:中國高等教育機會的不平等:一項基於北京高校大學生的調查

主講人:吳曉剛副教授 (香港科技大學社會科學部)

時 間:10063日(星期五)下午230 - 下午430

地 點:中研院人文館南棟社會所802會議室

演講簡介:
中國的高等教育自1998年以來經歷了前所未有的擴張。儘管在有關高等教育機會的公平性的問題上,社會公眾有著廣泛的討論,有些零星的觀察指 出幾所精英大學裏來自弱勢家庭的學生比例呈下降趨勢, 研究高等教育的擴張和分化對社會分層的影響,還缺乏系統地資料。我們在2009年啟動的首都大學生成長追蹤調查,隨機抽取了北京15所大學的近5000名 學生,旨在搜集他們的大學生活經驗,職業選擇,以及今後的勞動力市場的過程 。本研究基於一年級和三年級學生對高中經驗和錄取過程的回顧資訊,描述他們是如何被分配到不同層次的高校的過程。如其他地方發現的一樣, 從精英高等教育到大眾高等教育的轉變是伴隨著精英研究型大學與競爭性不是很強的二類大學之間的分化,而後者越來越多地是被來自一般背景家庭的孩子佔據。

講者簡介:
現任香港科技大學社會科學部副教授,應用社會經濟研究中心主任。研究領域包括社會分層與流動,經濟社會 學,政治社會學,和定量研究方法。他的文章發表於三大國際頂級社會學刊物如《美國社會學評論》American Sociological Review 、《美國社會學刊》American Journal of Sociology 、《社會力》Social Forces 、人口學的國際頂級刊物《人口學》Demography,以及《中國研究季刊》China Quarterly2006 年獲得美國國家教育學院(National Academy of Education/Spencer 基金會)的博士後研究基金,並以發表於《社會力》的研究論文"產黨幹部與市場機會"獲美國社會學會亞洲/亞裔美國人研究最佳論文獎。2007 年以"精闢資料研究中國社會"獲美國社會學亞洲人/亞裔美國人"青年學人"獎(the Asian and AsianAmerican Early Career Award)。

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中研院社會所6/7()「午餐演講」公告

講 題:Second-Modern Transformation as a Global Trend: Where does East Asia Stand Today? [In English]

主講人:Professor Emeritus Sang-jin Han (Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, South Korea)

主持人:張茂桂 研究員 (中央研究院社會學研究所)

時 間:10067日(星期二)中午12 - 下午130

地 點:中研院人文館南棟社會所802會議室

Abstract
Starting from the theory of second-modern global transformation worked out by Ulrich Beck and his associates, the presentation will examine the suggested main driving forces of this change, that is, global risk, individualization, and cosmopolitan transformation. As an attempt to assess the significance and limit of the arguments advanced so far, conceptual clarification and distinction will be briefly introduced between push and pull factors, between structural relationship and human intervention, and between macro-historical imperative and cultural-discursive formation. Based on this conceptual work, an argument will be made that the proposed theory of second modernity largely reflects the Western experience, inviting creative works to investigate East Asian trajectories of second-modern transformation. These trajectories may converge into yet crucially diverge from the Western ones. The presentation will move further to examine the main characteristics of the East Asian compressed modernity and rush-to mode of development and demonstrate that modernity has brought about risk society whose complexity and intensity is far greater than in the West, as evidenced by the experience of the collision of various types of risks in China, South Korea, and Japan. While supporting the idea of second modernity, therefore, the presentation will emphasize that research should be based on concrete experience of development in East Asia, opening up a critique of compressed modernity from within and exploring a new pattern of development plugged well into normative traditions. The relationship between second modernity and tradition will be introduced in this way and examined in the Western as well as East Asian contexts. Among East Asian countries, the Korean trajectory of second-modern transformation will be examined with respect to the emerging reflexive risk-governance, individualization, and the normative energies crystallized in many public campaigns. The presentation will also ask where the main driving forces of second-modern transformation come from in China and Japan today.

講者簡介:
Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University (SNU), where he taught social theory, political sociology, and cultural change since 1981. Currently, he teaches at Beijing University as Visiting Professor. He also lectured at Columbia University in New York, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

As a scholar, he has distinguished himself by political and social engagements. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on policy planning of Republic of Korea during Kim Dae-jung administration. He also served as President of the Academy of Korean Studies, Chairman of Board of Directors, the Korean Human Rights Foundation, and member of Plenary Committee, Tripartite Committee of Labor, Management and Government, Executive Chair, the Committee on the 60th Anniversary of Korean Liberation, and the Koran representative in negotiation with France over the return of the Oeguijanggak archives held in Paris.

He is the author/editor of many books including Habermas and the Korean Debate, Contemporary Society and Human Rights, Theory of the Middling Grassroots, Korea's Third Way, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Korea, and Human Rights in North Korea, among others. His current research includes Chinese transformation with special focus on the role of the grassroots segment of the emerging middle class, transitional justice and reconciliation in East Asia, particularly concerning the war crimes of Japan, second-modern transformation in West and East, the quality of democracy. Three books are expected to come out in 2011 and 2012 from the United States with the titles (provisional) of Divided Nations and Transitional Justice, Asian Tradition and Global Democracy, and Risk Society and Reflexive Modernization.

備註:因備有午餐,請事先來信向李小姐報名: yenchen@gate.sinica.edu.tw, 謝謝。
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中研院社會所6/10()「學術演講」公告

講 題:Single Parents and Their Children in Korea in Comparative Perspective [In English]

主講人:Dr. Hyunjoon Park (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Pennsylvania, USA)

主持人:楊文山 研究員 (中央研究院社會學研究所)

時 間:100610日(星期五)下午230 - 下午430


地 點:中研院人文館南棟社會所802會議室

Abstract

Since mid-1990s, the divorce rate in South Korea has rapidly increased, rendering Korea to be a country with a comparably high rate of divorce. Considering the weak welfare state, considerably limited economic opportunities of women, and strong norm against ‘deviant’ family behavior in Korea, substantial growth in single-parent families due to divorce has important implications for economic and social disparities between children living with a single parent and their counterparts with two parents. In order to appreciate implications of recent increase in single parenthood for social inequality at the next generation, it is necessary to carefully examine socioeconomic and demographic conditions of single parents, particularly distinguishing gender (and causes) of single parenthood. Using data from census and a nationally representative survey of 15-year-old students and their families, we assess socioeconomic conditions and co-residence with grandparents among single-mother and single-father families in comparison to their two-parent counterparts. Then, we examine the extent to which children growing up with a single parent are at risk of academic underachievement due to their disadvantaged socioeconomic conditions and assess how co-residence with grandparents may compensate for the disadvantage associated with single parenthood. We discuss the findings for Korea in comparative perspective especially in comparison to Japan and Taiwan.

講者簡介:
Hyunjoon Park, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, received his Ph.D. (2005) in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include social stratification, education, and social inequality in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on Asian countries. Recently, he has extended his interest to examine cross-national comparisons of educational differences between immigrant and native children. He is also interested in changing socioeconomic status of Koreans in the United States.

個人網站:
http://works.bepress.com/hyunjoon_park/
http://hyjpark.googlepages.com/home

備註:本活動由本所「家庭與生命歷程研究小組」 主辦。
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