Jinwon Kim’s Profile

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Jinwon Kim
Display Name
Jinwon Kim
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Social Science
Office Location
N626
Academic interests

Urban Sociology, Transnational and Global Sociology, Immigration, Asian American Studies, and Consumption

Bio

Jinwon Kim, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at New York City College of Technology, City University of New York. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in sociology at Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Oberlin College. Kimā€™s research explores themes of urban sociology, transnational and global sociology, migration, Asian and Asian American studies, and consumption. She is currently working on her book manuscript on Koreatown in Manhattan, as a transnational space for consumption, leisure, and entertainment, or Transclave. Kimā€™s works appear in City& Community, the International Journal of Cultural Policy, and CUNY Forum. She is also editor with two other sociologists for Koreatowns: Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Formations (Lexington Books, published in 2020), an edited volume on global Koreatowns. Kim earned her doctorate in sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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718-260-5055
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My Courses

SOC1102 Urban Sociology, Fall 2020

SOC1102 Urban Sociology, Fall 2020

According to the UN, 82.3% of the U.S. population lived in urban areas in 2018; nearly 90% of the U.S. population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050. The New York-Newark metro area is the nationā€™s most populous urban area, followed by Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim and the Chicago area. While increasingly ubiquitous metro areas provide a unique living experience. Cities are thus prime research sites and laboratories to analyze everyday 21st-century American life, as many of Americansā€™ identities and daily lives are strongly tied to urban spaces and shaped by their economic, social and cultural power. This course connects macro-level processes, including global forces, politics and economy to micro-level daily life, such as social interactions among city dwellers. This course is designed to help students develop empirical understanding and analysis of cities. By exploring U.S. urban history from the emergence of modern cities in Europe and in North America during the industrial revolution, students learn how cities were understood not only as a site of production, but also a driving force for modern consumption by looking at department stores and world fairs. Then, students move to explore the U.S. context through Chicago School scholarsā€™ ecological perspectives, and discuss how and why these scholars used the city as a laboratory to analyze modern social life in America. This course focuses particularly on contemporary urban issues in American cities, starting with the post-war era. Why did whites leave cities for the suburbs? Who was left behind? What caused urban riots? What did urban America lose during that time? By taking new urban sociological approaches into account, students will conceptualize the relationships between the state, economy and city in order to understand urban America. This course emphasizes two perspectives. First, students will explore urban changes and transformations in Downtown Brooklyn as an urban laboratory. Together, as a class, we will use various media and scholarly materials in order to understand contemporary urban issues through our daily experiences in Brooklyn. Second, despite the focus on American cities, this course also underscores global and transnational perspectives for comparison. From immigrants who bring their own culture to the presence of global/transnational corporations, most U.S. cities are global entities, and urban lives are intricately tied to globalization. This course, thus, aims to open up discussion about how we connect the micro-level of our social interactions, consumption, and daily lives to macro-levels of the progress, global economic forces, politics and culture.

SOC1101 Elements of Sociology, Spring 2023

SOC1101 Elements of Sociology, Spring 2023

This is a course website for “Elements of Sociology” taught by Professor Jinwon Kim

SOC1101 Elements of Sociology Model Course

SOC1101 Elements of Sociology Model Course

This is a cloneable Model Course for SOC1101 Elements of Sociology.

SOC 1101 OER

SOC 1101 OER

This site provides open educational resources (OER) for SOC 1101: Elements of Sociology. SOC 1101 catalogue description: Sociology as an analytical science. The emphasis is on concepts, hypotheses and theories which explain social behavior and social change.

SOC 2380 Sociology of Education, ID

SOC 2380 Sociology of Education, ID

This inter-disciplinary course examines the social influences on education and the effects of education and schooling on the social experiences and identities of individuals and groups in contemporary society. Focuses on the factors involved in the promise of education as a great equalizer that creates opportunity and helps narrow social inequality. Special emphasis is placed an understanding the history of reform, the role of poverty, segregation, sexism, and language as well as on brain function, memory and learning. Students are expected to take an active role by each presenting recent research on a relevant topic of their chose and participating in small group in-class discussions.

My Projects

Office of the Provost

Office of the Provost

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Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Across the Curriculum

WAC encourages courses throughout the college to incorporate formal and informal writing into the course practices and requirements. Avatar retrieved from Bridgeline Digital, Creative Commons License

Sociology 1101 Course Hub

Sociology 1101 Course Hub

The SOC 1101 Course hub is here to provide support for SOC 1101 teaching and learning.

SOC 1101 Resources Hub

SOC 1101 Resources Hub

This site provides open educational resources, pedagogical tools, and general support materials for SOC 1101: Elements of Sociology and other 1000 level sociology courses.

Model Course Initiative Summer 2021

Model Course Initiative Summer 2021

This is a project for fellows in the Summer 2021 Model Course Initiative. Avatar: “Work in Progress” by Kirk K. via Flickr–mural by Channin Fulton in North Park, San Diego.

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