Ji-won Lee 이지원

Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE This article examines the scope conditions under which migrant women endure a reduction of agency in a sojourn context. Based on 33 in-depth interviews with mothers of Korean expatriate families in...

In this article, I examine how temporary migration impacts the agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE. Grateful to share – inspired by my umma, and the mothers' quiet power of sacrifice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CDCS Colloquium: Yena Lee Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era

Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨

I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

Interesting article/paper.

I'm much less anti-AI than a lot of people on my feed. But pretty skeptical it can simulate human behavior effectively for social scientific purposes -- at least in cases where variation among humans, rather than acting like an average human, is what's important.

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TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY

Department of Sociology, Western University

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Values and Inequality: Prosocial Jobs and the College Wage Premium - Nathan Wilmers, Letian Zhang, 2022 Employers often recruit workers by invoking corporate social responsibility, organizational purpose, or other claims to a prosocial mission. In an era of substa...

my "favorite" for that genre is this one. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’ll be visiting Budapest as a Junior Fellow at the IAS-CEU @iasceu.bsky.social during Fall 2025. I look forward to engaging with other fellows, visiting scholars, and artists in residence. Friends and colleagues passing through Eastern Europe are most welcome to connect.

Apply to the 11th Section Conference: Rethinking Development in a Post-Western World Rethinking Development in a Post-Western World Dates and Location: Feb. 13-15, 2026. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) Deadline to Apply: Oct. 25th, 2025 Apply Here The U.S. has enacted sweeping…

Join the 2026 ASA Sociology of Development conference! Rethink development in a post-Western world.🗓️ Feb. 13-15, 2026 at Princeton University. Apply by Oct. 25, 2025. All sociology of development topics welcome. sociologyofdevelopment.com/2025/09/24/a...

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

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Ambient Documentation And The Dilemma Of Deskilling In Medical Education | Health Affairs Forefront The digitization of health care has had important consequences for how medical training is conducted, and with the advent of ambient documentation, this important social component of health care is li...

New piece from me and @kellieowens.bsky.social on ambient documentation systems ("AI scribes") and the potential risks this technology may pose for medical education and the socialization of trainees www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

The nordic paradox has puzzled sociologists when looking at gender equality. Well, it was a methodological artefact due to low data quality and bad modelling. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How America’s elite colleges breed high-status careers—and misery “They funneled the shit out of me.”

The “career funnel,” a phrase coined by sociologists Amy Binder and Daniel Davis, describes the mechanism behind the crowding of elite college graduates into finance, tech, or management consulting.

Says one Stanford alum of how he ended up as a consultant: “They funneled the shit out of me.”

The Question of Manipulability I believe that this is a long-overdue correction for a reason. Much of the literature on polarization has operated under a tacit assumption: that political attitudes are malleable. If you frame an issue one way, you can shift people’s support for particular candidates. If you “humanize” out-partisans, animosity declines. If you push people into a room and make them discuss a question for 15 minutes, you see that ideology is more moderate than it would be1. The implicit theory of political culture operating here is that people’s ideologies are weak, malleable, and ready to be channeled into something “good” if only we have the “right” intervention. 1 That is, they are more likely to be 2, 3, or 4 in a Likert scale than being 1 or 5 on a 5-point scale.

I believe that the experimental paradigm in "polarization research" should receive strong criticism for its thin conception of political culture. I make this argument in a new blog post.

Experiments Can’t Reduce Partisan Animosity
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/experiments

Wilson College at McMaster is hiring a TTAP or a tenured Associate Professor. Come join us!
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Quantitative social scientists interested in climate political economy: check out this awesome postdoc opportunity!

Events | Center on Global Poverty Welcome back to a new academic year, and a new international development landscape. This year the Center on Global Poverty will be hosting a virtual and in-person series of talks on "The Future of For...

Join us this Friday, September 19, at 3 PM ET for the first event in our year-long series, "The Future of Foreign Aid." We'll be joined by George Ingram from the Brookings Institution for a talk on "Aid in an Era of Disruption." sites.krieger.jhu.edu/cgp/events/ #ProblemSolvingSociology

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ... Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast Call for Papers: Climate Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic related to climate change politics (and adjacent areas, e.g. environmental and energy pol...

📣 Climate politics (+ adjacent subfields) researchers!

@antvalentim.bsky.social and I will co-chair the Climate Politics section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026. Thanks to those who already submitted papers 🌟

We put together notes for the CfP for the section curious. Reach out if you have qs:

This is a great example of how the use of innovative data can bring us a step further with old research questions

📖We are happy to share a new book: Constructing Objectivity: Emotions in Legal Decision-making 👉 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Exploring emotions in legal decision-making and the sociology of emotions #Sociology #Emotions #AcademicResearch uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

@manyeekan.bsky.social and I show distinct time use patterns of 10-17 yo in Japan, Korea, UK, and Finland across 3 decades. Persistent 🚺🚹 gaps in East Asia reflect adult gender inequality, but gender gaps in domestic work are not nec smaller in more gender equal ctrys
@sociologyoxford.bsky.social

Job! Two assistant/associate professors in educational sociology with a quantitative methods focus based either in Copenhagen or Aarhus
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ve signed a book contract with University of California Press for my ethnography of a social credit system in China. Stay tuned!

Save the date. The Sixth Annual International Conference of The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy titled "Complex Diplomacy in Turbulent Times." Thursday & Friday October 23-24, 2025. DePaul University.

RSVP (in thread) to attend virtually The Grace School of Applied Diplomacy's Sixth Annual Conference, "Complex Diplomacy in Turbulent Times," on October 23 & 24, 2025 at 9:30-13:30 CDT on both dates.

Agreed. The (unintentionally?) selective opening of the U.S. consumer market to Korea might be another key dependency that enabled Korea's catch-up development. Thanks for sharing!

Really enjoyed reading this article. This was a particularly useful insight.

"What kind of intellectual discussions does this research extend?" might be a better question than "What is this case of?"

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Open-rank job posting, to direct and build a brand new program in computational social science
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📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028 Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...