| Week VI:
November 8th and 10th: Middle Class Anxieties Today
Tuesday: Education and Middle Class Anxieties Today
Thursday: Veteran's Day Holiday
Discussion Topic (optional reading summary due Friday, November 11th)
- What does consumption have to do with middle classness in South Korea? Is this different from the US?
- What is unique about the Kangnam area of Seoul? Does Seattle have a comparable area?
- How is education linked to class struggle in South Korea? Is this different from the US.
- How did neoliberal educational reforms in the 1990s change the relationship between class and education in South Korea?
Reading:
- Koo, Privilege and Anxiety, chaps 4-6 and Conclusion.
- One of the following:
- Nancy Abelmann, So Jin Park, and Hyunhee Kim, "On their Own: Becoming Cosmopolitan Subjects beyond College in South Korea," In Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, National and the New Economy in Uncertain Times, ed. Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, and Hai Ren. (Stanford, CA: Stanfor University Press, 2013) pp 100-26 (chapter 4 available electronically in UW library)
- Clark Sorensen, "The Paradoxical Effect of Democratization on the South Korean Education System in the 1980s and 1990s." History of Education, June, 2021 (available on course website)
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