Research in the Sociology of Education

Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, US. Park is interested in educational stratification and family in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. He is the author of Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De-mystifying Stereotypes (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts (Springer, 2013). He has also co-edited two previous volumes of Research in the Sociology of Education. Grace Kao is Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality at Yale University, US. She received her PhD from The University of Chicago. She works in the areas of race, ethnicity, immigrant adaptation, sociology of education, and children and youth. She currently serves as Vice President-Elect of the American Sociological Association and has served on the editorial boards of American Sociological Review, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, Social Problems, and Social Psychology Quarterly. According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited over 8,500 times.

Eight studies look at the sociology of education from such perspectives as educational outcomes of heterogeneous groups of students in diverse contexts, school violence in China: a multilevel analysis of student victimization in rural middle schools, narratives of interdependence and independence: how social class and family relationships influence where high-achieving students apply to college, socialization experiences and research productivity of Asians and Pacific Islands: "model minority" stereotype and domestic versus international comparison, and gender gaps in student academic achievement and inequality.

• Introduction. Educational Outcomes of Heterogeneous Groups of Students in Diverse Contexts; Hyunjoon Park & Grace Kao Chapter 1. The Variation in Educational Aspirations among Immigrant Students in Germany; Taylan Acar Chapter 2. School Violence in China: A Multi-level Analysis of Student Victimization in Rural Middle Schools; Jennifer Adams & Emily Hannum Chapter 3. Global Patterns of the Use of Shadow Education: Student, Family, and National Influences; Soo-yong Byun, Hee Jin Chung, & David Baker Chapter 4. Narratives of Interdependence and Independence: The Role of Social Class and Family Relationships in Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College; Yang Lor Chapter 5. Jumping on the STEM Train: Differences in High School Math and STEM College Degree Attainment between Children of Immigrants and Natives in the United States; Yingyi Ma & Amy Lutz Chapter 6. Socialization Experiences and Research Productivity of Asians and Pacific Islanders: “Model Minority” Stereotype and Domestic vs. International Comparison; Josipa Roksa, Soojeong Jeong, David Feldon, & Michelle Maher Chapter 7. Gender Gaps in Student Academic Achievement and Inequality; Shu-Ling Tsai, Michael L. Smith, & Robert M. Hauser