• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.5-27
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to figure out the multicultural library services that reflects the unique socio-cultural characteristics of Korea. The Korean libraries have accomplished very prompt adaptations and unquestioning acceptance of the western model, although Korean conditions are totally different from the western. Under these circumstances, this study intends to critically analyze the multucultural library services, based on a thorough investigation of the American libraries' experiences. As a result, this study suggests the proper answers which can be applied to the present Korean library situation. The data for discussion were collected by literature survey, direct observation of American public libraries, and interviews or e-mails with American librarians.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.149-155
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• 2019

In this study, the multiplicity of synchronous online class discussion activity is explored at conceptual level. From the cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT), each utterance may be considered as a product of the activity system. Alderfer's ERG theory is employed as another theoretical framework for the study. Based on the subject's existence, relationship, growth needs, their class discussion activities constitute four different dimensions: physical/biological, cultural/institutional, social/relational, and cooperative knowledge construction. It is inherent in individual activities and has a different arrangement according to their interests and situations, and at the same time acts as a factor of cooperation and competition among the participants. Through this, collective discussion activities represent complex and dynamic development patterns.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.140-157
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• 1993

이 글은 1993년 4월 5일에서 8일 사이 영국의 에쌕스 대학교 (Univ. of Essex) 에서 열렸던 연례 영국 사회학회에서 발표되었던 글을 줄이고 다시 다듬은 것이다. 따라서 최초의 내용과는 꽤 차이가 있다. 지난 반세기 동안 이 땅에 밀어 닥쳤던 산업화, 도시화를 비롯한 이른바 근대화에 의하여 엄청난 사회변동을 겪었다. 인구학적으로든, 문화적으로든, 그리고 경제 성장면에서나 사회적으로도 변화의 폭과 속도는 다른 어느 나라와도 비길 수 없는 거대한 것이었다. 이런 변화의 물결 속에서 한국 가족은 스스로 많은 변신을 하여야 했다. 그리고 그 변화는 그 자체가 또 하나의 사회적 힘으로 등장하여 제2, 제3의 영향력을 현대 한국인의 일상생활에 연속적으로 끼쳤다. 그럼에도 불구하고 전통적 가치관은 사회구조의 중요한 부분들을 차지하고 여전히 한국인의 삶을 조정하고 있다. 이 논문은 위와 같은 맥락에서 가족구조의 변동을 분석하고 있다. 우선, 한국의 가족크기는 어떻게 바뀌었는가 현대 한국인들 사이에 가장 자주 관찰되는 가족유형은 어떤 것이 있는가 또한 일반적 유형으로부터 벗어나 버린 가족형태에는 어떤 것들이 있으며 그런 것들은 어느만큼 뚜렷한 존재로 증가하였는가 등을 따져 보았다. 지난 4반세기 동안 일어 났던 가족분야의 변동은, 전통적 가족주의의 원리가 전반적으로 약화하였다는 점에서 기존의 근대화 이론의 논의와 일치하고 있다. 하지만 전통적 원리가 비록 미약하나마 여전히 존재하며, 생각지도 못하였던 가족 형태가 증가하기 시작하였다는 점에서 근대화 이론의 타당성은 재음미되어야 하리라 본다.

• Trans-
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• v.14
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• pp.123-155
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• 2023

This study analyzes the characteristics of the social value creation process through the collective appreciation of film. It focuses on the historical development of community cinema in Japan. In modern-day Japan, where digital video is easily accessible and the use of private, personalized media spaces widespread, a sub-culture of collective film appreciation is spreading, as more and more Japanese begin to attend movie screenings in non-commercial theaters. In addition, Japanese community cinema center has begun to integrate and support this viewing experience, which has come to be known as community cinema. A literature review revealed the following characteristics of community cinema. First, local theater screening groups or appreciation groups cooperate with residents to establish and operate movie theaters. Second, these spaces create theoretical and practical participatory learning opportunities that foster understanding of and participation in film culture, through large-scale associations with organizations or institutions that offer viewings. Third, based on collective appreciation, the film culture created through repeated joint viewings produces a social arena in which community can be realized. In these communities film can be put to socially productive uses, such as problem solving.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.35-53
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• 2016

This paper attempts to present critical issues of the information society and an alternative research addressing the challenges of ensuring that ICT is applied in ways that are enabling and responsive to social contexts in which people live their lives. Drawing the question of why insights arising from the mainstream vision are rarely useful in policies, the study highlights some developmental paradigms linked to ICT. It explores how ICT is seen as a means to development, and elaborates on the limitations of how current issues are related to the quality of life. The results indicate that ICT reduces quality of life while economic growth entails the opposite. The research framework here involves some meaningful components of cultural residues: independence, risk-taking, government responsibility by mapping how the level of ICT is distributed in the topology of values around the world. Moving to the next phase, ICT policy design and implementation need to be set up practically in a broad perspective that can be pursued by those concerned with social and technological innovation.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.14 no.1_spc
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• pp.1-31
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• 2008

The special issue of Korean Journal of Psychological and Social Issues focuses on the educational achievement in Korea. This article reviews the following five themes: (1) Theoretical analysis of educational achievement; (2) Educational achievement of Korean adolescents; (3) Delinquency among Korean adolescents; (4) Cultural context and cross-national comparisons; and (5) Korean society and future prospects. This article analyzes the outcome of the 2006 International Conference on Asia's Educational Miracle. First, this article examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing Korean society and education. Second, the purpose and significance of the international conference are examined. Third, background and focus of the publication of the special issue are reviewed. Finally, the limitations and potential of the International conference and the special issue are analyzed. Through this analysis, the need for indigenous psychological analysis of educational achievement and quality of life are outlined.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.55-63
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• 2018

This study was intended to identify path structures through pathway analysis with an emphasis on the cognitive elements that influence the acculturative stress of marriage-based immigrant women. The results of the study were designed to establish a foundation for practical measures and policies to support marriage-based immigrant women to adjust their lives in the culture. This study has established research model on the path structure according to the psychological stress theory as to how social support, coping strategy, and acculturative attitude recognized as a cognitive element of marriage-based immigrant women on the acculturative stress and implement practical verification. In addition, control variables for the use of ages, education level, period of marriage, and income level of socio-demographic variables were analyzed. To obtain data for the study, convenience sampling and snowball sampling of marriage-based immigrant women that resided in the area of C and J were conducted simultaneously through surveys and applied to the analysis of 204 cases. Analysis of the path structure of influence of social support, coping strategies, and acculturative attitudes that were perceived as a cognitive element of marriage-based immigrant women influencing acculturative stress revealed that these factors were specifically weighted towards acculturative. Moreover, comprehensive acculturative attitude was identified as a crucial variable reducing the effects of acculturative stress during the acculturative procedures of marriage-based immigrant women. This assumes that establishing and performing policies supporting co-existence of homeland cultures of marriage-based immigrant women and Korean cultures might be an efficient action for dealing with acculturative stress rather than forcing them to adjust to Korean culture.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.1-33
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• 2024

This study analyzed the experiences of victims of state violence, discovered differences between state violence and general trauma, and proposed ways to help heal trauma. Participants were composed of state violence victims and their families in total, including 11 from the Jeju 43 Incident, 11 from the Yeos u·Sunchoen 10.19 Incident and 6 form May 18th Democratic Uprising. As a result of using the grounded theory to analyze data, a total of 170 concepts, 57 subcategories, and 20 categories were derived. The central phenomenon was direct damage caused by state violence. This included 'post-traumatic stress', 'social stigma', 'isolation from community', 'socio-economical issues' and 'family dissolution'. As a result of the process analysis, the participants experienced six phases: 'trauma', 'isolation', 'resistance', 'resignation', 'recovery', and 'growth.' Each phase is sequential but at the time mutually affect each other. Based on the results, this study verified the difference between state violence and general trauma, and emphasized social and cultural factors, such as community support, were important factors in healing state violence trauma. Besides, the implications and limitations as well as suggestions for future research were mentioned.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.333-338
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• 2021

Development of 5th generation mobile telecommunication technology is visualizing ideal hyper-connected social information and communication technology (ICT). In particular, virtual reality (VR) technology is at the starting point for new expansion and leaps. This work defines virtual reality as media in this context and collects and analyzes discourse on its scalability around space and communication theory. We first elaborated the concept, starting with the early discussions of the virtual reality concept in 1990, and discussed the relationship between the physical world and digital information, expression and interaction immersion as a medium, simulation, art creation theory, and finally evolutionary development. In conclusion, beyond the discourse on the technology of virtual reality, academic subjects were required to have theoretical frameworks on cognitive science, neuroscience, social science, and humanities issues (ethics, personality, etc.) for the development and evolution of virtual reality. In other words, it is time for the evolution of virtual reality to be discussed, which can be moved beyond.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.187-202
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• 2018

This study posits that a more equitable science education is possible through analyzing the sociocultural mechanisms that operate in the participation and marginalization in science learning process, and therefore aims to review research trends in this area of science education. To do so, the study analyzed 85 articles that adopted a sociocultural approach to science learning identity in major international journals. The review was organized into 1) overall trends such as the number of articles by year, country, learner's sociocultural background, research context and research methods, and 2) a more in-depth analysis of the main research problems and conceptual frameworks along with concrete research examples. The study found that the current research works in this area have contributed to broadening the idea of legitimate learners in science education by considering learners' various sociocultural identities as the positive resource for learning based on the premise that science learning occurs as identity formation through participating communities of practice, and critiquing the culture or discourses that oppress such identity formation. The studies in this area also brought up the equity issue in science education in ways which embrace various learners that had been marginalized in the traditional science class and facilitate their agency. Based on these findings, the study made a case for analyzing various sociocultural mechanisms relating to the participation and marginalization in science learning to realize 'science education for all Koreans' and proposed future research direction.