Monday, July 25, 2016

나이트 연구

내가 보려는 scene/picture 뭔가. 그냥 원나잇하러 가는 아닌가 싶은데... 성 자본이 적은 사람들이 모이는 현장.
-          중년 불륜 현장
-          게이바
-          삐끼 종업원+고객들.
-          이들의 행위를 통해 연구하겠다는 건지.
-          Urban sociology


Tuesday, July 19, 2016

dissertation idea - sexually unsatisfied

misogyny can be interpreted as an attempt to reorganize erotic field, and redistribute erotic capital?
involuntary celibacy, or unsatisfied with sexual life:  within the perspective of sexual life history (life course perspective; cumulative dis/advantages) <- br="" course.="" gendered="" life="">
You can measure their emotional conditions : how they relate their erotic capital (bodies) to their mental status (soul) (medical sociology)<- br="" medical="">
i) Here, how they define themselves as a wo/man, as a (sexual) citizen, having rights and pleasure. <- br="" politics="" sexual="">(sexual politics) - Foucault
ii) (economic sociology) the very particularity of erotic capital in the market of romance!! Koreans have vast segregated markets for the couples and the singles. & the prevailing sex industry field undiscriminating the singles and the occupied. Conflict or negotiation between the sex industry field and the romance field  -- how can it be re/distributed? - Bourdieu

Where are erotic capitals are re/distributed? What do you define as 'sexual fields'? How do they realize the level of their erotic capital, with which interactions within which fields? How do they restructure their erotic capital?
by active seeking and self-development: willing to pay
hierarchy of match-making agencies : Duo vs. Re-marriage vs. Vietnamese bride (changing the field)
plastic surgery, pick-up artist academy (transforming economic capital into erotic capital)
by giving up: cost-saving
(in)voluntary celibacy, sex industry,

What's special with <- and="" br="" gayle="" in="" levi-strauss="" rubin="" traffic="" women="">erotic capital? It disappears as one ages.

1)cultural capital
2)economic capital
3)social capital

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

7/12/16

Why do they blame women instead the rich(another rich and attractive men)? -- just being a coward in front of the strong men? This individualistic and animalistic approach cannot explain anything about social enforcement on being an individual man.

Deficit of erotic capital
risky behavior when having a chance? or rather safe since there’s rare chance?
- emotional health. depression?
How have they developed the ideas or a certain level of desirability over the life course?
A.I.Green, “distributing erotic capital?
-- Redistributing is possible? : Undesirability, Sexual dissatisfactions, and failed citizen
 Research Question required. 
-- social value of dating and mating?! --- economic sociology

desirability includes not only self-managing to be more desirable but also relinquishing the need to be desirable. When the knowledge of desirability increases and becomes naturalized, those who try not to conform are regarded as abnormal. Particularly, when marriage and child rearing is culturally and nationally valued, the abnormalization prevails. Existing literatures participate in this abnormalization, seeing it as a social problem. 

cultural and social capital redistribution = possible
erotic capital = how to redistribute without naturalizing gender difference and heterosexuality? 
= in fact, the discrepancy of erotic capital among people is compensated and adjusted by the use of other type of capital: sex industry
The bundle of different capitals... How can we differentiate that? 


Saturday, July 9, 2016

How to position yourself 7/9/16

1) First, study to which laura publishes her articles.

7/9/16

Q. Laura’s publications – culture and health!
Journal of Sex Research ***
Sociology of Health and Illness **
Sexuality & Culture
Sociological Perspectives
Gender & Society **
Sociological Forum
Qualitative Health Research
Archives of Sex Research
Women’s Studies Quarterly
Youth & Society

1)Journal of Sex Research ***
3 Korean studies

Not much on state power related research

> With students: Newman, Harmony D. (health and illness, social movement), Heather Lensman Kettrey (sexual violence, college students)



What does it mean that Asian countries are sexually conservative? Is it really true? Isn’t it a misunderstanding that treats predefined ethnic culture as truism? What is sexual conservatism not only in sexual beliefs, practices, desires, and rights in different population groups? Asian sexual conservatism as an ideology?
Seth says he doesn’t think Asians are sexually conservative because of their cultural products such as Japanese porns and animation, and of the fact that they are not religion. He doesn’t relate Confucious ideas to sexual conservatism.

-       it relates to regional studies on the whole, on how Asian countries are defined as. How does this certain stereotype emerge? What does it mean having this stereotyping?
-       Cultural consumption aspect; cultural and religious norms; interpersonal behaviors; …
-       Do Koreans believe they are living in a sexually conservative country?


Seeing sexual desire in the sexual citizenship. What is desire that can be fully grasped? How does the desire emerge and dispute?

My all-time keywords: SEXUAL DESIRE, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP


Current literature on sexual desire : SES, age… Not very ‘macro-level’ research.
sexual desire within the global scale


2) study journal of sex education and find if they are not only for methodological nationalism.

History of sex education in Korea: how state power controls national bodies

sex education varied within age groups: 1) community-based: for married couples 2) military: 3) schools 4) family 5) school police, family and women's department, etc.

Q:
Why there's no resistance in the realm of sex education, except the late 1990s? Just because of the absence of homosexuality in the content? 


How state power makes difference in perceiving risk and pleasure?
How state power builds a sexual citizen?
How people choose what to teach and what not to teach?

Studying the agency, school principals, and ... knowledge production


state, civil society, school and sex ed agencies
studying Youth. Children. --- continued with my previous works.

Do I really wanna join the sex education field?






Tuesday, July 5, 2016

SSRC DPDF prep_070416

0)It should be a gender study.
1) No need to cover every literature now.
2) ASK: Is it alright to do before I even don't pass the qualification exam? - Yes, I guess. What I'm doing now is mere literature review on limited range of the one for my dissertation. I will cover gender and sex in migration, eventually. For that, I am covering the range of masculinity (gender) and refugee (migration), first. Just get to the target first.
3)"sex lives"(the very micro level) will come later. The "East Asian cold-war sexuality/masculinity" will come later, too.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

06/28/16

S really wants me to write a piece that everybody should cite.

What should be studied, then? I can show how the knowledge production on sexuality and migration is gendered or possibly queered. You can calculate ration of hetero/homo in studies of sexuality and migration. Additionally, you can show how gender is related to the tendency. Think of the article that argues studies of sexuality in Korea is pretty much just gendered, producing the knowledge of gendered sexuality.