President's Session - Youth Studies In East Asia

Abstract Submissions Closed

RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee)

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

The countries of East Asia are crucial to understanding the experiences of contemporary youth, as the region has undergone rapid social, economic and cultural change.This session calls for presentations from scholars based in Korea and the East Asian region and/or drawing on research with or about young people in the region. Presentations can focusing on any aspect of young people's lives, including buy not limited to education and employment transitions, or cultures, or politics, identities and key debates in youth studies, such as the key inequalities and social change.
Session Organizers:
Dan WOODMAN, University of Melbourne, Australia, dan.woodman@unimelb.edu.au
Youngmi KIM, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, youngmi.kim@ed.ac.uk
Baek Yung KIM, Seoul National University, South Korea, kimby88@snu.ac.kr