Jiyoung Yang Son [e-mail] Jiyoung Yang Son e-mail [e-mail] phone [phone] Past Work/Research Experience For brief overview of my work and research experiences, I post my resume below. I would like to add my own survey research experience conducted for my master's thesis to this part. In this paper, my purposes are: (1) To examine how the variation in the amount of social resources possessed affects the high school students who intend to go to music school in multiple dimensions (2) Ultimately, to see how social agents utilize available resources and set strategies for their own and/or descendents social mobilization/reproduction through the medium of a specific cultural capital I designed a questionnaire, distributed it to about 400 high school students of 29 schools, and analyzed the data I got from them. The analysis was mostly descriptive due to the limits of available data. However, I included some interviews to make up this weakness. My goal was not to generalize or to make any predictions, but to find certain tendencies that prevail among people's values, attitudes and behaviors toward music education in Korea. Until now, SPSS is the only statistical program I can use. I also admit that my knowledge of statistics is still in the basic level. Since I am taking statistics class (soc.360), this deficiency can be overcome in some months later. Additionally, I can say am well familiar with data managing because I myself did these things for my thesis. I am also familiar with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. My academic interests lie in culture and social inequality. Specifically speaking, I am interested in 1) the unequal distribution of power and resources within a particular cultural institution; 2) the ways in which various cultural institutions (e.g. educational system, media, academy, etc.) relate to social inequality, and 3) how the values and meanings produced through these institutions affect and construct are utilized by socially disadvantaged group, especially by the immigrants who sharply visualize the nexus of two major social disparities: class and race. Jiyoung Yang Son [e-mail] Experience Sep Dec 1996 Teaching Assistant Yonsei University Seoul, Korea Course title: "Gender and Society" (undergraduate) Organized class discussion Graded exams and papers Prof. Byong Je Jon (sociology) Yonsei University Mar Jun 1996 Research Assistant Literature search Assisted his course teaching ("Social Psychology") This includes leading students' discussion and grading exams and papers Korea Cultural Policy Institute (KCPI) Seoul Dec 1996 Jan 1997 Research Assistant A Seminar on Cultural Policies in Korea and Germany Translated various documents regarding cultural policies in Germany (from German to Korean) Prof. Byong Je Jon (sociology) Yonsei Univ. Mar Jun 1997 Research Assistant Assisted his book publication--Human and Society (Korean) The book was a social psychology textbook Library search Reviewed new studies of social psychology and summarized them (especially, cognitive perspectives, personality, and eastern philosophical perspectives of social psychology) Edited the manuscript Korea Cultural Policy Institute (KCPI) Seoul Jul Aug 1997 Research Assistant A Project on the Encouragement of Volunteer Activities in Cultural Facilities Web search and library search regarding volunteer activities in US cultural institutions Translated various documents on volunteer activities (from English to Korean) Yonsei University Seoul, Korea Education 1991 1995 B.A., sociology B.A. paper--"The Sociological Implications of the Avant-Garde Movement in t...