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：100年6月3日（星期五）下午2時30分 - 下午4時30分
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。
講者簡介：
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中研院社會所6/7(二)「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：100年6月7日（星期二）中午12時 - 下午1時30分
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(五)「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：100年6月10日（星期五）下午2時30分 - 下午4時30分
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/
http://hyjpark.googlepages.
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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