Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Research on political generations has been developed mostly on the basis of advanced democratic politics. Recent Korean elections in which growing generational differences in voting behavior have been observed provide excellent opportunity to test the political generaions theory in a non-Western context. Previous studies on generational politics in Korea remain theoretically and empirically underdeveloped and also have produced at best mixed findings. Using a rigorous empirical model and comprehensive data set, this paper examine, first, whether political generational effects have existed in Korea and, second, whether this effects play a major role in voter choice in recent Korean elections.
In particular, this paper take a disaggregate look at generational politics, dividing political generation into different groups according to their educational background. Contrary to most previous literature, our findings shows that the theory of a political generation has only limited explanatory power when it comes to explaining recent Korean elections.

Publication Type: Session Paper
Abstract: There has emerged a new generation of women in South Korea: stuck-generation. These are women in their 60s who are supposed to enjoy their responsibility-free life after they have done their jobs by raising their children and supporting their husbands. Now, they should be able to reconnect with their long-forgotten friends and start their new lives. However, instead of new life, they are called back into home, this time, by another group of women, their daughters. Their daughters, the new generation of women, who want both family and career, need somebody who can take care of their child so they can work. With inadequate support from the society, their mothers are the only option they can turn to. Plans for new life for the mothers have to be put aside. As these two generations of women manage their lives, together and separately, dialectical tensions are abundant. This paper particularly explored two types: dialectics within themselves and with each other. To examine their relationships and dialectical tensions in them, this study interviewed 18 women who were in the arrangement where mothers were raising their daughters� kids. Both parties struggle with the dilemma they are facing: To have everything, daughter asks her mother for another sacrifice; mother is willing to do so but feels resentment for her own missed opportunity; as those inner struggles transpire, guilt, anger, and love are all present between these two women.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Previous work has examined how new theoretical, methodological, and design frameworks for engaging classroom learning are provoked and supported by the highly interactive and group-centered capabilities of a new generation of classroom�based networks. This paper extends this �mathematics structuring the social sphere� analysis and presents a taxonomy of kinds of generative activity useful both in clarifying the relations between kinds of generative activity and in clarifying internal aspects of generative design, especially as supported by next-generation classroom networks. Examples of pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers� generative classroom activities are to be presented and discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In this paper, we assess whether parental legal status at the time of initial migration and parental naturalization affect political participation among the young adult 1.5 and 2nd generation children of the immigrants. Our analysis is based on a recently completed telephone survey of 1.5 and 2nd generation young adults (aged 20 to 40) in the five county Los Angeles region � the Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA) survey. In the analysis presented in this paper, we focus exclusively on the Mexican and Salvadoran/Guatemalan 1.5 and 2nd generation respondents. We find that knowing whether a Mexican, Salvadoran, or Guatemalan 1.5 or 2nd generation immigrant had a parent who entered the United States in an unauthorized status or who naturalized does add to our understandings of the likelihood of that person participating in community or electoral politics. Immigration status at entrance and parental naturalization relate to participation in the range of community and civic activities for Mexicans (and weakly for Salvadorans/Guatemalans), and to the likelihood of registering to vote for Salvadorans/Guatemalans.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: What are the racial attitudes of the generations popularly coined “Generations X and Y”? This paper is an examination of the attitudes of post-Civil Rights cohorts, looking at their attitudes on race and the socializing forces that shape them.