Sam Han
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Han |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Han |
| SIGNATURE | HAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9666-8114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pro-Work Reforms of the North Korean Defector Settlement Support System in South Korea: Changes in Benefit Levels and Differences across Groups
This study investigates the extent to which the benefit levels of the North Korean Defector Settlement Support System (NKDSSS) have changed and differentially impacted the various groups of North Korean Defectors (NKDs). It employs a historical approach to policy analysis and uses datasets compiled, summarized, and converted with the Consumer Price Index by the author. Findings suggest a portion of Unconditional Cash Transfers decreased through t…
Pro‐work reforms to the settlement support system and the economic adjustment of recipients: Evidence from South Korea
This study examines the effects of the pro‐work reforms to South Korea's North Korean Defectors Settlement Support System (NKDSSS) on the economic adjustment of North Korean Defectors (NKDs) in the country. It analyzes data from the 2010 National Survey of Domestic Violence: NKDs, using a regression discontinuity design. The study finds that the reforms did not affect changes in the economic adjustment of NKDs, measured by employment, household i…
Towards a tragic social science: Critique, translation, and performance
Taking 'the idea of the tragic' as a point of departure, this article articulates an approach to sociology and social theory from the perspective of a 'tragic vision'. In arguing for the relevance of 'tragic thought' for the analysis of contemporary crises, it suggests that 'the tragic' must be understood as a reflection of the long tail of the formation of a particular secular, modern 'ethico-onto-epistemology'. In making this case, the article …
Han and/as Ressentiment: Lessons from Minjung Theology
Following calls in recent critical debates in English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of han (often translated as "resentment"), this article argues for its reconsideration from the vantage point of minjung theology, a theological perspective that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, which has been dubbed the Korean version of "liberation theology". Like its Latin American counterpart, minjung theology understood itself…
Global Perspectives on Religion, Media and Public Scholarship
This article encourages researchers of religion, media and culture to develop new, global, comparative conversations about the meaning and purpose of public scholarship. Key terms like “religion”, “media”, “publicness” and “scholarship” can be understood and articulated differently in different social, cultural and geographical locations, and dialogue across our academic contexts is needed to help explore these parallels and divergences. This art…
Does poverty alleviation help enhance social investment? The case of South Korea
Using the 2015 Korean Welfare Panel Study data and a regression discontinuity design, this study examines the effects of the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) participation on social investment through evaluating its impact on changes in family consumption patterns. We find that NBLSS participation was associated with increased educational expenditures. The effects were larger for households with an elementary or junior-high schoo…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges
He died as he lived: Biopolitical Mediatization in the Death of David Goodall
This article explores the nexus of biopolitics, mediatization and secularization, drawing out their relationship as it pertains to matters of assisted dying and euthanasia. In particular, it examines the dynamics of the media coverage of a highly-publicized case of euthanasia, namely, that of scientist David Goodall, based in Perth, Australia, who flew to Switzerland in May 2018 to end his own life at the age of 104. Focusing on the Australian Br…
Media Anthropology for the Digital Age, by Anna Cristina Pertierra
Media Anthropology for the Digital Age seeks to bring about a dialogue between anthropology and media studies, which the author Anna Cristina Pertierra insists is necessary today. It is a rapproche
Wear White: The mediatized politics of religious anti-LGBT activism in Singapore
As a result of the perceived rise in LGBT visibility and acceptance in Singapore, a social media campaign started in 2014 called Wear White, which brought together both Muslim and Christian participants to counter the annual Pink Dot rally. This is Singapore's version of (gay) pride parades, which are held in major cities all across the world. This article aims to analyze this religious backlash against LGBT, paying attention to its "media logic,…
Celebrity Death, Media Events and Civil Religiosity: An Interpretive Media Sociology of the Suicide of Choi Jin-sil
This article presents a theoretical media-sociology of celebrity death as a “media event.” Using Dayan and Katz’s famed concept as a point of entry, it examines a particular media event, the suicide of South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil (1968-2008), once dubbed “the nation’s actress,” through the lens of not only of “media events” but also celebrity studies and the sociology of religion. It does so with emphasis placed on the particular significan…
Structuralism and post-structuralism
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural resear…
Disenchantment revisited: Formations of the ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ in the technological discourse of modernity
This article problematizes sociologist Max Weber’s famed notion of ‘disenchantment’ in order to explore the ways in which ‘technology’ and ‘religion’ operate in the discourse of ‘secular modernity’. It suggests that disenchantment is not simply epistemological, that is, synonymous with rationalization and intellectualization, but also ontological, and a description of the overhauling of what Bruno Latour calls the ‘modernist settlement’. It proce…
The illusion of autonomy: Locating humanism in existential-psychoanalytic social theory
This article assesses a realm of psychoanalytic social theory that is relatively under-discussed – existential psychoanalysis – in order to gain further insight into the relationship of psychoanalytic ideas to humanism. I offer a reading of certain influential thinkers in this tradition, namely Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss, presenting conceptual clarifications while highlighting a cluster of important aspects of their respe…
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis
Governance Role of Auditors and Legal Environment: Evidence from Corporate Disclosure Transparency
In a sample of firms originating from 20 countries, we examine whether and how auditor size (our proxy for audit quality) associates with corporate disclosure transparency. While prior studies examine the relation between auditor size and several aspects of financial reporting quality (e.g. discretionary accruals, restatements, etc.), there is limited evidence on how auditor size relates to disclosure transparency. There is also mixed evidence on…
Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World - By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Theorizing New Media: Reflexivity, Knowledge, and the Web 2.0
A recent wave of popular and scholarly discourse has hailed the arrival of the Web 2.0, marking a new generation of Internet users who share and collaborate on popular social networking sites such as MySpace and user-generated communities such as YouTube and Wikipedia. Social and cultural critics have attempted to take stock of the implications of these various technological changes with specific emphasis on the state of knowledge in contemporary…
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis
Theorizing New Media: Reflexivity, Knowledge, and the Web 2.0
A recent wave of popular and scholarly discourse has hailed the arrival of the Web 2.0, marking a new generation of Internet users who share and collaborate on popular social networking sites such as MySpace and user-generated communities such as YouTube and Wikipedia. Social and cultural critics have attempted to take stock of the implications of these various technological changes with specific emphasis on the state of knowledge in contemporary…
Towards a tragic social science: Critique, translation, and performance
Taking 'the idea of the tragic' as a point of departure, this article articulates an approach to sociology and social theory from the perspective of a 'tragic vision'. In arguing for the relevance of 'tragic thought' for the analysis of contemporary crises, it suggests that 'the tragic' must be understood as a reflection of the long tail of the formation of a particular secular, modern 'ethico-onto-epistemology'. In making this case, the article …
Han and/as Ressentiment: Lessons from Minjung Theology
Following calls in recent critical debates in English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of han (often translated as "resentment"), this article argues for its reconsideration from the vantage point of minjung theology, a theological perspective that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, which has been dubbed the Korean version of "liberation theology". Like its Latin American counterpart, minjung theology understood itself…
Does poverty alleviation help enhance social investment? The case of South Korea
Using the 2015 Korean Welfare Panel Study data and a regression discontinuity design, this study examines the effects of the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) participation on social investment through evaluating its impact on changes in family consumption patterns. We find that NBLSS participation was associated with increased educational expenditures. The effects were larger for households with an elementary or junior-high schoo…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges
The illusion of autonomy: Locating humanism in existential-psychoanalytic social theory
This article assesses a realm of psychoanalytic social theory that is relatively under-discussed – existential psychoanalysis – in order to gain further insight into the relationship of psychoanalytic ideas to humanism. I offer a reading of certain influential thinkers in this tradition, namely Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss, presenting conceptual clarifications while highlighting a cluster of important aspects of their respe…
Theorizing New Media: Reflexivity, Knowledge, and the Web 2.0
A recent wave of popular and scholarly discourse has hailed the arrival of the Web 2.0, marking a new generation of Internet users who share and collaborate on popular social networking sites such as MySpace and user-generated communities such as YouTube and Wikipedia. Social and cultural critics have attempted to take stock of the implications of these various technological changes with specific emphasis on the state of knowledge in contemporary…
Governance Role of Auditors and Legal Environment: Evidence from Corporate Disclosure Transparency
In a sample of firms originating from 20 countries, we examine whether and how auditor size (our proxy for audit quality) associates with corporate disclosure transparency. While prior studies examine the relation between auditor size and several aspects of financial reporting quality (e.g. discretionary accruals, restatements, etc.), there is limited evidence on how auditor size relates to disclosure transparency. There is also mixed evidence on…
Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World - By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis
The illusion of autonomy: Locating humanism in existential-psychoanalytic social theory
This article assesses a realm of psychoanalytic social theory that is relatively under-discussed – existential psychoanalysis – in order to gain further insight into the relationship of psychoanalytic ideas to humanism. I offer a reading of certain influential thinkers in this tradition, namely Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss, presenting conceptual clarifications while highlighting a cluster of important aspects of their respe…
Structuralism and post-structuralism
If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural resear…
Disenchantment revisited: Formations of the ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ in the technological discourse of modernity
This article problematizes sociologist Max Weber’s famed notion of ‘disenchantment’ in order to explore the ways in which ‘technology’ and ‘religion’ operate in the discourse of ‘secular modernity’. It suggests that disenchantment is not simply epistemological, that is, synonymous with rationalization and intellectualization, but also ontological, and a description of the overhauling of what Bruno Latour calls the ‘modernist settlement’. It proce…
Celebrity Death, Media Events and Civil Religiosity: An Interpretive Media Sociology of the Suicide of Choi Jin-sil
This article presents a theoretical media-sociology of celebrity death as a “media event.” Using Dayan and Katz’s famed concept as a point of entry, it examines a particular media event, the suicide of South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil (1968-2008), once dubbed “the nation’s actress,” through the lens of not only of “media events” but also celebrity studies and the sociology of religion. It does so with emphasis placed on the particular significan…
Media Anthropology for the Digital Age, by Anna Cristina Pertierra
Media Anthropology for the Digital Age seeks to bring about a dialogue between anthropology and media studies, which the author Anna Cristina Pertierra insists is necessary today. It is a rapproche
Wear White: The mediatized politics of religious anti-LGBT activism in Singapore
As a result of the perceived rise in LGBT visibility and acceptance in Singapore, a social media campaign started in 2014 called Wear White, which brought together both Muslim and Christian participants to counter the annual Pink Dot rally. This is Singapore's version of (gay) pride parades, which are held in major cities all across the world. This article aims to analyze this religious backlash against LGBT, paying attention to its "media logic,…
He died as he lived: Biopolitical Mediatization in the Death of David Goodall
This article explores the nexus of biopolitics, mediatization and secularization, drawing out their relationship as it pertains to matters of assisted dying and euthanasia. In particular, it examines the dynamics of the media coverage of a highly-publicized case of euthanasia, namely, that of scientist David Goodall, based in Perth, Australia, who flew to Switzerland in May 2018 to end his own life at the age of 104. Focusing on the Australian Br…
Global Perspectives on Religion, Media and Public Scholarship
This article encourages researchers of religion, media and culture to develop new, global, comparative conversations about the meaning and purpose of public scholarship. Key terms like “religion”, “media”, “publicness” and “scholarship” can be understood and articulated differently in different social, cultural and geographical locations, and dialogue across our academic contexts is needed to help explore these parallels and divergences. This art…
Does poverty alleviation help enhance social investment? The case of South Korea
Using the 2015 Korean Welfare Panel Study data and a regression discontinuity design, this study examines the effects of the National Basic Livelihood Security System (NBLSS) participation on social investment through evaluating its impact on changes in family consumption patterns. We find that NBLSS participation was associated with increased educational expenditures. The effects were larger for households with an elementary or junior-high schoo…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion, Power, and Resistance: New Ideas for a Divided World
The world is currently gripped by pressing environmental, social, and economic challenges
Han and/as Ressentiment: Lessons from Minjung Theology
Following calls in recent critical debates in English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of han (often translated as "resentment"), this article argues for its reconsideration from the vantage point of minjung theology, a theological perspective that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, which has been dubbed the Korean version of "liberation theology". Like its Latin American counterpart, minjung theology understood itself…
Pro‐work reforms to the settlement support system and the economic adjustment of recipients: Evidence from South Korea
This study examines the effects of the pro‐work reforms to South Korea's North Korean Defectors Settlement Support System (NKDSSS) on the economic adjustment of North Korean Defectors (NKDs) in the country. It analyzes data from the 2010 National Survey of Domestic Violence: NKDs, using a regression discontinuity design. The study finds that the reforms did not affect changes in the economic adjustment of NKDs, measured by employment, household i…
Towards a tragic social science: Critique, translation, and performance
Taking 'the idea of the tragic' as a point of departure, this article articulates an approach to sociology and social theory from the perspective of a 'tragic vision'. In arguing for the relevance of 'tragic thought' for the analysis of contemporary crises, it suggests that 'the tragic' must be understood as a reflection of the long tail of the formation of a particular secular, modern 'ethico-onto-epistemology'. In making this case, the article …
Pro-Work Reforms of the North Korean Defector Settlement Support System in South Korea: Changes in Benefit Levels and Differences across Groups
This study investigates the extent to which the benefit levels of the North Korean Defector Settlement Support System (NKDSSS) have changed and differentially impacted the various groups of North Korean Defectors (NKDs). It employs a historical approach to policy analysis and uses datasets compiled, summarized, and converted with the Consumer Price Index by the author. Findings suggest a portion of Unconditional Cash Transfers decreased through t…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (4 works)