分类:背景提升 发布日期:2022-05-25 发布人:沩徕
社会学终身教授
Professor of Sociology
该教授出生于韩国,在日本和夏威夷长大,并在哈佛大学就读,1982年以优异成绩获得社会学学士学位,1988年获得社会学博士学位。目前他是加州大学伯克利分校的C.K. Cho社会学教授。该教授的社会学想象力三部曲以C-赖特-米尔斯的社会学想象力概念为基础,研究传记、历史和社会结构的交叉点,探讨了他的韩国血统和韩国人的流散轨迹。他的主要学术兴趣是社会理论。在致力于 "市场 " 的重新概念化之后,他试图重新思考现代人的类别--种族、民族和国家--这本书被出版为《现代人的身份》(哈佛大学出版社,2004年)。他目前正在撰写一本系统的社会理论著作,暂定名为《社会理论的安慰》。此外,他还在完成一系列关于暴力、民主和现代(全球)大学等困扰他的话题的书籍。他还在十几种期刊的编辑委员会任职。
他也在本科生教学和学术管理方面投入了大量精力。他对教学法的兴趣最终体现在一本入门教科书《社会学》上。Your Compass for a New Century (with Robert Brym, Wadsworth, 2003),该书已被翻译成多种语言。2004年至2009年,他是伯克利大学国际和地区研究学院院长。在加入伯克利学院之前,该教授曾在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校担任社会学系主任五年,并在密歇根大学指导日本研究中心和韩国研究项目。除了伊利诺伊州和密歇根州,他还在夏威夷大学马诺阿分校、延世大学(韩国)、俄勒冈大学、庆应大学(日本)、国立台湾大学、怀卡托大学(新西兰)、哈佛大学以及世界上其他一些机构任教。
最后,该教授对想象力文学、语言学、音乐学、葡萄酒学、美食学和书目有长期的兴趣。
Imaginative literature, philology, musicology, oenology, gastronomy, and bibliography.
Area of Expertise:
Social theory, political economy, East Asia
Sample Topics:
What Is the K in K-pop?
The phenomenal success of the Korean Wave has generated collective celebration in South Korea In the early 2010s, the national self congratulation is especially manifest for the popularity of South Korean popular music (K-pop), which has spread from neighboring Asian countries, such as Japan and Taiwan, to farther ashore in Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.2 The K-pop World Festival in December 2011 attracted wannabe K-pop singers from sixteen different countries and confirmed its global appeal to South Koreans (Choe and Russell, 2012). K-pop news generate media headlines. The South Korean government, intent on enhancing its soft power along with its export prowess, has actively promoted K-pop. Many younger South Koreans are eager to embrace the global success of K-pop, which somehow proves the creativity and coolness of South Koreans, hitherto known for producing cars and cell phones rather than engrossing dramas and popular songs: diligence and intelligence rather than beauty and style. K-pop in particular and the Korean Wave in general raise a wide range of questions, but I focus on two. What are the sources of K-pop’s recent commercial success?
What does it say about South Korean society and culture?
Sociology of Markets
This paper surveys sociological approaches to the study of markets. Afte considering the economic approach, he delineate the wide range of theoretical schools, including alternative schools in economics, economic anthropology, cultural sociology, the embeddedness approach, and the new political economy. He also briefly discuss recent debates on the transition from planned economy to market and on globalization. He conclude by noting the difficulties of theorizing about the historical and institutional complexity of markets.
Embedding Polanyi's Market Society
Karl Polanyi remains one of the most trenchant critics of neoclassical economics. His “embeddedness” thesis, which holds that all economic activities and institutions are enmeshed in social relations and institutions, offers a sound theoretical basis for economic sociology. Nonetheless, he fails to embed
the market concept. This theoretical lacuna manifests itself in his classic account of the rise of market society in England, The Great Transformation ([1944] 1957), where he neglects to consider institutional diversity and discontinuities in English commercial development. Polanyi's embeddedness
thesis can be taken to its logical conclusion; that is, even the market can be embedded. “Markets” can be treated as social networks or organizations constituted by traders. I offer as an empirical illustration a brief case study of the rise of “market society” in England.
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