Research in the Sociology of Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781787690783)

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.