Hyunjoon Park is a Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the Center for Korean Studies. He is affiliated with

                      Population Studies Center                                                 

                      Center for East Asian Studies   

                      Asian American Studies Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Research: my research interests include education, social stratification, family and social demography in cross-national comparative perspective, with focus on Korea and other East Asian countries

Selected publications 

* denotes refereed publication

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2008. (Forthcoming). “Home Literacy Environments and Children’s Reading Performance: A Comparative Study of 25 Countries.” Educational Research and Evaluation.

* Park, Hyunjoon and Sangkuk Lee. 2008. (Forthcoming) “A Survey of Data Sources for Studies of Family and Population in Korean History.” The History of the Family.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2008. “Effects of Single Parenthood on Educational Aspiration and Student 

Disengagement in Korea.” Demographic Research 18: 377-408.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2008. “Public Policy and the Effect of Sibship Size on Educational Achievement: A Comparative Study of 20 Countries” Social Science Research 37: 874-887.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2008. “The Varied Educational Effects of Parent-Child Communication: A Comparative Study of Fourteen Countries.” Comparative Education Review 52: 219-243.

* Lee, Sangkuk and Hyunjoon Park. 2008. “Marriage, Social Status, and Family Succession in the Medieval Korea (13c-15c).” Journal of Family History 33: 123-138.

Park, Hyunjoon and Jongchun Cha. 2008 “Trends in Intergenerational Social Mobility across Four Cohorts in South Korea.” In Social Stratification and Social Mobility in Late-Industrializing Countries, edited by Hiroshi Ishida. The 2005 SSM Research Series, Volume 14. Sendai, Japan: The 2005 SSM Research Committee.

* Sandefur, Gary and Hyunjoon Park. 2007. “Educational Expansion and Changes in Occupational Returns to Education in Korea.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25: 306-322. 

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2007. “Single-Parenthood and Children’s Reading Performance in Asia.” Journal of 

Marriage and Family 69: 863-877.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2007. “Inequality of Educational Opportunity in Korea: Gender, Socioeconomic Background, and Family Structure.”International Journal of Human Right 11: 179-197.

Park, Hyunjoon. 2007. “South Korea: Educational Expansion and Inequality of Opportunity for Higher Education.” Pp. 87-112 in Y. Shavit, R. Arum, and A. Gamoran (eds.), Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. Stanford University Press.

* Park, Hyunjoon . 2006. “Parental Involvement and Educational Outcomes: The Significance of Institutional Arrangements of Educational System.” International Perspectives on Education and Society Vo. 7: 187-208.

                * Park, Hyunjoon and Gary D. Sandefur. 2006. “Families, Schools, and Reading in Asia and Latin 

America.” Research in Sociology of Education 15: 133-162.

* Park, Hyunjoon and Jeroen Smith. 2005. “Educational Assortative Mating in South Korea: Trends 1930-1998.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 23: 103-127.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2005. “Age and Self-Rated Health in Korea.” Social Forces 83: 1165-1182.

* Park, Hyunjoon and Gary D. Sandefur. 2005. “Transition to Adulthood in Japan and Korea: An Overview.” Sociological Studies of Children and YouthVol. 10, 43-76. 

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2004. “Intergenerational Social Mobility among Korean Men in Comparative Perspective.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 20: 227-253.

* Park, Hyunjoon. 2004. “Educational Expansion and Inequality in Korea.” Research in Sociology of 

Education 14:33-58.

Sandefur, Gary D., Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, and Hyunjoon Park. 2004. “Off to a Good Start? Post-Secondary Education and the Early Transition to Adulthood.” R. Settersten, R. A., Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg Jr, and R. G. Rumbaut (eds.), On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

* Park, Hyunjoon and Gary D. Sandefur. 2003. “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Voluntary and Involuntary Job Mobility among Young Men.” Social Science Research 32: 347-375.
  

Teaching: since 2005 I have taught the following courses at the University of Pennsylvania

            1) Social Statistics (SOCI 120): fundamental social statistics for undergraduate students

               2) Social Issues in Contemporary Korea (SOCI 230/530, EALC 083): general introduction to various  social issues in contemporary Korea for undergraduate and graduate students

               3) Introduction to Sociological Research (SOCI 100): introduction to research methods for undergraduate students

               4) Social Stratification (SOC 643): seminar for graduate students