kossda-korea social science data archive

Principal Investigator(s)

Cho, Uhn / Department of Sociology, Dongguk University

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the class mobility process of individuals through their family histories during periods when Korean society was undergoing drastic structural changes. The study was carried out through in-depth interviews of three generations and surveyed the traces of their class mobility, barriers and channels of mobility, and the differences between the class mobility of the siblings within each generation.
The object of interview was the families who parents generation were born between the 1940s and the 1950s and their children were born between the 1970s and 1980s. In order to examine the differences in mobility among classes the interview group divided into four classes of professionals, small business owners, self employed, and laborers by the standards of head of household. And with 5 families per category totaling 20 were interviewed.
The contents of the interview are divided largely into two parts the first being the birth, death, occupation, education and social status of each members of the generation, and second the rise and fall of the family. The data provided by KOSSDA includes audio files from 6 families, 1 from the professional category, 1 from small business owner, 2 from the self employed, and 2 from laborers.

Keywords

social class class mobility social mobility job transfer intergenerational shift

Subjects

Inequality/ Social inclusion

Citation

Cho, Uhn. Interview on Social Structure Change and Class Mobility through Family History, 1999-2000 [Dataset]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-10-30, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-B3-2000-0001-V1.0.

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