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ISA Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility

Tokyo Meeting, 1-3 March 2003

 

Social Inequality, Family, and Intergenerational Transfer

Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo

 

PROGRAM

 

 

February 28 (Fri) 17:30 – 19:30  Registration and Reception

 

 

 

March 1 (Sat) 9:30 – 10:40

Plenary Session:

Some Accomplishments and Setting an Agenda for RC28

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Chair:                  Hiroshi Ishida (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Presenter:           Michael Hout (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

What We Have Learned: RC28’s Contributions to Knowledge

Discussants:        Wout Ultee (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Thomas DiPrete (Duke University, USA)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

 

 

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COFFEE BREAK  10:40 – 11:00

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March 1 (Sat) 11:00 – 13:00

A  Social Origin and Educational Attainment

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Chair:                  Shu-Ling Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Discussant:　       Adam Gamoran (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Effects of Family Background Characteristics on the Educational Achievement of Women in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey, 1987-1998

                           Jeroen Smits (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Ayse Gunduz-Hosgor (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)

Is Social Background Loosening its Impact on Educational Attainment in Norway?

                                     Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund (University of Oslo, Norway)

         Kristen Ringdal (Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway)

Patterns and Changes of Educational Attainment in Korea

                             Sang-soo Chang (Sunchon National University, South Korea)

 

 

March 1 (Sat) 11:00 – 13:00

B  Family Resources & Inequality in Attainment I

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Chair:                  Shuichi Hirata (Japan Institute of Labour, Japan)

Discussant:         Judith Seltzer (UCLA, USA)

Welfare Regimes, Household Living Arrangements, and Income Inequalities in Hong Kong and Britain

                             Sin Yi Cheung (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Internal Family Dynamics in the Reproduction of Poverty

                             Martin Sanchez Jankowski (University of California-Berkeley, USA)

Linking Intergenerational Associations of Status Attainment and Family Formation: The Early Transition to Adulthood among American Youth

                             Molly A. Martin              (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Wife’s Economic Contribution to the Household Income in Japan with Cross-national Perspective

                             Sawako Shirahase

           (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan)

 

 

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LUNCH BREAK  13:00 – 14:20

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March 1 (Sat) 14:20 – 16:20

A  Tracking and Inequality in Primary and Secondary School

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Chair:                  Tony Tam (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Discussant:         Richard Arum (New York University, USA)

Quantity of Schooling and Educational Inequality: Full-Day Kindergarten in the USA

                             Adam Gamoran & Carolina Milesi

(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA）

Race and Track Assignment in Public Schools

                             Samuel R. Lucas (University of California,Berkeley, USA)

                             Mark Berends (Vanderbilt University, USA)

High School Tracking and College Destination in Israel

                             Abraham Yogev, Hanna Ayalon, Anna Gluzman & Idit Livneh

                             (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Student Engagement in America’s Urban High School Mathematics and Science Classrooms: Construction of a Comprehensive Model and Findings on Race

                             Kazuaki Uekawa (University of Chicago, USA)

 

March 1 (Sat) 14:20 – 16:20

B  Social Stratification & Political Orientation

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Chair:                  Arthur Sakamoto (University of Texas, USA)

Discussant:         Harry Ganzeboom (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Who Still Likes Socialism and Why?  Structural Determinants of Political Opinions in Poland

                             Kazimierz M. Slomczynski (The Ohio State University, USA)

Social Stratification and Relational Resource: Association between Networks with Influential People and Political Attitude in Japan

              Yoichi Murase (Rikkyo University, Japan)

Changing Class Structure in the Post-industrial Netherlands: Political Orientation of the ‘New Social Classes’ between 1970-2000

                             Ayse Guveli, A. Need & N.D. de Graaf

(University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

The Relationships among Objective Class, Subjective Class, and Social Justice in Korea

                             Jongchun Cha (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)

 

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COFFEE BREAK  16:20 – 16:40

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March 1 (Sat) 16:40 – 18:10

A  Career Mobility

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Chair:    Kristen Ringdal (Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway)

Discussant:         Donald J. Treiman (UCLA, USA)

Changing Labor Market Opportunities and Career Mobility

                             Marlis Buchmann, Irene Kriesi & Stefan Sacchi

              (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Changing Inequality Patterns? Do Empirical Findings on Men’s Job Mobility and Unemployment in West Germany Reflect a Loss of Social Integration?

                             Daniela Grunow (University of Bielefeld, Germany)

Karin Kurz (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Steffen Hillmert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

Getting Personal: The Use of Networks for Successful Job Searches in Russia, 1985-2001

                             Theodore P. Gerber & Olga Mayarova (University of Arizona, USA)

 

 

March 1 (Sat) 16:40 – 18:10

B  Self-Employment & Family Assets

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Chair:                  Yoichi Murase (Rikkyo University, Japan)

Discussant:         Hiroshi Ishida (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Self-Employment Dynamics in Advanced Economies

Walter Mueller (Mannheim University, Germany)

Richard Arum (New York University, USA)

Where Do Bosses Come From?  An Analysis of Entrepreneurial Characteristics of Taiwan’s Bosses　　

                             Ruey-Ming Tsay & Chih-Chia Chuang (Tunghai University, Taiwan)

 

 

March 2 (Sun) 9:30 – 11:00

A  Social Networks & Attainment

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Chair:                  Jeroen Smits (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Discussant:         Theodore P. Gerber (University of Arizona, USA)

Social Networks and Employee Turnover

                             Alan Kirschenbaum & Amelia Levy

                (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

An Analysis of Social Structural Effects on Status Attainment Process

                             Yoshimichi Sato (           Tohoku University, Japan)

Communist Friendship Ties in Creation of Human Capital During the Transition to Capitalism: The Case of Poland

                             Katarzyna M. Wilk (Ohio State University, USA)

 

 

March 2 (Sun) 9:30 – 11:00

B  Methods in Stratification Research

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Chair:                  Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

Discussant:         Thomas A. DiPrete (Duke University, USA)

Black-White Differences in Social Mobility in the Past 30 Years: Multinomial Logit Latent-Class Regression Models

                             Kazuo Yamaguchi (University of Chicago, USA)

How Sample Size and Strength of Association Affect the Ability to Detect Group Differences in Cross-Classification Analysis

              Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA)

 

 

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COFFEE BREAK  11:00 – 11:20

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March 2 (Sun) 11:20 – 13:20

A  Educational Stratification I

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Chair:                  Kazuo Yamaguchi (University of Chicago, USA)

Discussant:         Samuel R. Lucas (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

How Do Mothers’ Educational Attainments Affect the Educational Attainment of the Next Generation?

                             Robert D. Mare & Vida Maralani (UCLA, USA)

Cross Sibling Effects on Educational Outcomes: Analysis of the 1990 US Census

                             Dalton Conley (New York University, USA)

Transmission of Sex Preferences Across Generations: The Allocation of Educational Resources Among Siblings

                             C.Y. Cyrus Chu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

                             Ruey S. Tsay (University of Chicago, USA)

                             Iluoying Wu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

While Educational Inequalities Decreased, Did Downward Mobility Diminish Because Governments Enhanced Upward Mobility?

                             Wout Ultee (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

                             Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

 

March 2 (Sun) 11:20 – 13:20

B  Family Resources & Inequality in Attainment II

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Chair:                  Sin Yi Cheung (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

Discussant:         Haya Stier (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

The Lasting Impact of Family Patterns

              Tore Lindbekk (Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Norway)

The Impact of Both Spouses’ Education and Parental Education on Divorce Risk in Norwegian First Marriages

                             Torkild Hovde Lyngstad (Statistics Norway, Norway)

Principal Earner and Accommodator in Household: An Illustration of Gender Stratification Process in Contemporary Japan

                             Sigeto Tanaka (Tohoku University, Japan)

 

 

March 2 (Sun)

13:30 - 14:30 Board Meeting (meet at the receptionist desk)

15:00 - 18:15 Excursion (meet at Sanjo Conference Hall at 15:00)

18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner (at Hotel Tokyo Garden Palace)

March 3 (Mon) 10:00 – 11:00

A  Theoretical & Historical Approaches to Class and Mobility

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Chair:                  Yu Xie (University of Michigan, USA)

Discussant:         Wout Ultee (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Additional Topics in the Sociological Analysis of Exploitation

                             Arthur Sakamoto (University of Texas, USA)

                             Jeng Liu (Tung-hai University, Taiwan)

Kin Networks, Marriage and Social Mobility in Late Imperial China

                             Cameron Campbell (UCLA, USA)

                             James Lee (Caltech/University of Michigan, USA)

 

 

March 3 (Mon) 10:00 – 11:00

B  Health and Inequality

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Chair:                  Martin Sanchez Jankowski (University of California-Berkeley, USA)

Discussant:         Dalton Conley (New York University, USA)

Equity in the Delivery of Health Care in Taiwan

                             Hsiu-Jen Jennifer Yeh (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

                             Chin-Shyan Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan)

                             Tsai-Ching Liu (National Taipei University, Taiwan)

Maternal and Child Health Care in Brazil: The Importance of Race

                             Sarah Burgard (UCLA, USA)

 

 

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COFFEE BREAK  11:00 – 11:20

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March 3 (Mon) 11:20 – 13:20

A  Social Mobility

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Chair:                  Kazumierz M. Slomczynski (The Ohio State University, USA)

Discussant:  Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA)

Recent Trends in Intergenerational Occupational Status Reproduction in The Netherlands 1970-1999: with An Application of Partial Association Models Estimated Using LEM

                             Harry B.G. Ganzeboom (Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

                             Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

Dynamic Changes of Social Mobility in Japan 1955-95

                             Nobuo Kanomata (Keio University, Japan)

Myth of “Societal Openness”: Social Mobility in Contemporary China, 1949-1996

                             Xiaogang Wu (University of Michigan, USA)

                Donald J. Treiman (UCLA, USA)

 

March 3 (Mon) 11:20 – 13:20

B  Assortative Mating and Educational Mobility

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Chair:                  Hanna Ayalon (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Discussant:         Robert D. Mare (UCLA, USA)

Assortative Mating and Income Inequality in Taiwan: A Quantile Regression Approach

                             Shu-Ling Tsai & Chung-Ming Kuan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Educational Assortative Mating in Ten East and South-East Asian Countries: Trends 1950s-1990s

                             Hyunjoon Park (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

                             Jeroen Smits (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Intergenerational Educational Mobility and the Competitive Structure of American Schooling

                             Tony Tam (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

A Multi-Country Study of Inter-Generational Educational Mobility

                             Arnaud Chevalier, Kevin Denny & Dorren Mc Mahon

(University College Dublin, Ireland)

 

 

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LUNCH BREAK  13:20 – 15:00

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March 3 (Mon) 15:00 – 17:00

A  Gender

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Chair:                  Sawako Shirahase

           (National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan)

Discussant:         Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund (University of Oslo, Norway)

Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes

                             Yu Xie & Kim Shauman (University of Michigan, USA)

Inequality in the Family: The Institutional Aspects of Wives’ Earning Dependency

                             Haya Stier & Hadas Mandel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Gender Authority Gap in Academia: Devaluation, Queuing, and Status Perspectives on Sex Composition Effects

                             Ly-yun Chang and Tony Tam (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

The Prevalence of Welfare-State Policies and Gender Socioeconomic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis

                             Hadas Mandel & Moshe Semynov (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

 

 

March 3 (Mon) 15:00 – 17:00

B  Educational Stratification II

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Chair:　　           Hsiu-Jen Jennifer Yeh (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)

Discussant:         Michael Hout (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Students, Schools, and Post-Secondary Enrollment: A Contextual Approach

                             Hanna Ayalon & Audrey Addi-Raccah (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Do Gains in Parental Resources Explain the Growing Female Advantage in

U.S. Higher Education?

                             Claudia Buchmann, Thomas A. DiPrete & Troy A. Powell

                             (Duke University, USA)

Social Origin and ‘Delayed’ Educational Careers

                             Marita Jacob & Steffen Hillmert

                 (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

Family Resources and Chances of Education: Consequences of an Early Loss of Parents

              Steffen Hillmert             (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)