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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 20

RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

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HYUNJOON PARK

Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

GRACE KAO

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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About the Authors

Taylan Acar is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. After receiving his PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, Acar spent one year at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Tübingen as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He has been working on the educational disadvantages immigrant students experience in the German context. Acar’s research focuses on social stratification and inequality, immigration, sociology of education, and demographic transition in Turkey.

Jennifer Adams is Associate Professor in global international education at Drexel University School of Education, USA. Her research, building on longstanding interests in education, social inequality, and Chinese society, investigates the effects of social change and educational policy on the educational experiences and general well-being of children and adolescents. Her most recent papers investigate the educational experiences of the children of migrant workers in China, transnational high school students in China, and immigrant youth in the United States.

David P. Baker is Professor of Sociology, Education, and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research focuses on the impact of education on individuals and societies, international comparisons of school organization, academic outcomes, and educational policy. His most recent book is The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

Soo-yong Byun is Associate Professor of Education and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research investigates variation in mechanisms and processes of social stratification across different countries and geographic contexts using large-scale national and international data. His work also focuses on the rigorous assessment and evaluation of educational policies and school interventions, especially relating to unique populations and contexts.

Hee Jin Chung is a Doctoral Candidate in Educational Theory and Policy at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research interests primarily lie in the area of sociology of education and comparative international education. Specifically, she is interested in how various types of social inequalities affect education and its outcome across different geographical and cultural contexts.

David Feldon is Professor of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University, USA. His research examines the development of expertise in STEM disciplines as it contributes to effective and innovative problem solving, as well as the quality of instruction. Dr. Feldon earned his PhD in educational psychology and his MS in instructional technology from the University of Southern California.

Emily Hannum is Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her research interests include education, global development, gender and ethnic stratification, poverty, and child welfare. She is a principal investigator on the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a longitudinal study of children in rural northwest China that seeks to illuminate sources of upward mobility among children living in some of China’s poorest communities.

Robert M. Hauser is Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society and Vilas Research Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He formerly directed the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. His current research seeks to explain the standing of the United States in large-scale international assessments of academic achievement.

Soojeong Jeong is a Doctoral Student in the Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Department of Utah State University, USA. She is currently conducting her dissertation research, which focuses on how online college students acquire and develop the necessary skills to manage their own learning over time. Her research interests include self-regulated learning, metacognition, technology integration into teaching and learning, as well as mathematics education.

Grace Kao is Chair and IBM Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality at Yale University, USA. 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 9,000 times.

Yang Lor is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley, USA. His research interests are in the areas of social inequality, poverty, education, culture, and race and ethnicity. He has researched and published on immigrant political involvement and the educational experiences of low-income children of immigrants. His dissertation is about social class differences in where high-achieving students apply to college.

Amy Lutz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University, USA. Her current research investigates educational and early labor market outcomes of children of immigrants in the United States and Europe, the relationships between families and schools and the role of social class on educationally relevant parenting practices, and how different affirmative action contexts have impacted different racial-ethnic groups’ enrollment and completion of degrees at selective colleges and universities.

Yingyi Ma is Associate Professor of Sociology and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, USA. Her current research examines international student mobility, Asian international students in the United States and the surge of Chinese international students in American Universities. Her other research projects focus on who studied in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and why, including the formation of aspirations, college major choice, and degree attainment in STEM fields.

Michelle Maher is Professor and Program Coordinator of the Higher Education Administration program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. Her current research explores doctoral student research and disciplinary writing skill development, higher education access and equity issues, and pedagogical approaches used across the disciplines.

Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. 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 coeditor of Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts (Springer, 2013). He has also coedited two previous volumes of Research in the Sociology of Education.

Josipa Roksa is Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Virginia, USA. Her research centers on understanding inequality in higher education, and in particular how students’ educational experiences contribute to their academic outcomes. Currently, she is primarily focused on examining experiences and outcomes of first-generation and low-income students at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Michael L. Smith is Researcher at CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of the Economics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences and the Center of Graduate Education of Charles University, Prague. He is Principal Investigator of a Center of Excellence project establishing the Czech Household Panel Study. He is also Chairman of the Institute for Social and Economic Analyses, Prague. He conducts research on the sociology and economics of education, social stratification and inequality, and social change.

Shu-Ling Tsai is Emeritus Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983, and then worked with Academia Sinica as Associate Research Fellow from 1983 to 1988 and Research Fellow from 1988 to 2018. Her main research areas include social stratification and sociology of education. She has published on Taiwan’s gender differences in educational attainment, occupational stratification, and selection in heterogeneous returns to higher education among others.