Da Move Lab (다무브랩) provides a platform on which graduate researchers can develop their ideas on social movements, human rights, social networks, and political sociology. The lab is organized by Chan S. Suh (서찬석), Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University (CAU) in South Korea.
On the Move in 2025
Two of our collaborative research, written in Korean, are accepted this spring. First, 0ur study by Dayoung Jeong, Eunhye Cho, and Chan S. Suh, entitled “Spanning Participants in the Social Movement Society (횡단하는 참여자들: 사회운동 사회에서의 기후정의행진 및 퀴어퍼레이드 참여자들에 대한 특성 분석)”, is published at the Korean Journal of Sociology. Second, our research by Yura Jeong, Shin Haeng Lee, and others, “When Hate Meets Hate (혐오와 혐오가 만날 때: 온라인 커뮤니티에 나타난 정치 혐오 및 사회 혐오 키워드의 결합에 대한 분석)”, is forthcoming at Information Society and Media.
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On the Move in 2024
This summer, three papers on political participation have been published at the Journal of Asian Sociology, Survey Research, and the Journal of Homosexuality, respectively. The first paper, entitled “Emotional Pathway to Activism”, illuminates the emotional foundation upon which one decides to engage in activism. The second one, “Who Participates in Politics and How?”, examines the effects of age and education on the different forms of political participation. The final one, titled “Moving Apart, Coming Together”, focuses on the emergence and development of the LGBTQ movement community in South Korea.
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Two of our lab members, Hyogyoung Kim and Shin Haeng Lee, have attended and completed the ICPSR summer program in Quantitative Methods at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – with support from Du-Myeong Fellowship. After completing the program, Hyogyoung Kim has presented her research on immigration at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
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Two papers on online platforms have been published at PLOS ONE, an international journal in the field of science. The paper titled “Mobilizing Grievances in the Internet Age” has started as an undergraduate thesis by Kayoon Kim and developed as a collaborative work with Chan S. Suh. The other paper, “The Hatred of All against All?”, is a study that Chan S. Suh and his colleagues have conducted on online hateful expression.
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Our collaborative research by Eunsoo Cho, Seulsam Lee, and Chan S. Suh, entitled “Between Ethnic Diversity and Immigration”, has been published at Social Science Research, a prestigious international journal in social sciences. The initial idea of the paper was first proposed in the undergraduate thesis by Eunsoo Cho.
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On the Move in 2023
Celebrating the launch of our lab on November 23rd, 2023, Sidney Tarrow, emiritus professor at Cornell University, has sent a message to our lab. Professor Tarrow is globally renowned for his pioneering research on social movements and contentious politics. “Congratulations on the launch of Da Move, the first —and so far the only— Korean lab to focus on the actions and the strategies of social movements. I welcome the fact that the Asian country with the most active social movement scene will take the lead in research on social movement activism.”
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중앙대 사회학과 ‘다무브랩’