Kang, Sootaek
*Emeritus Professor of Sociology
*Address : Department of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University, 52828 Jinju, S-Korea.
*Telephone : 82-55-772-1250 (Fax : 82-55-772-1259).
*E-mail : stkang@gnu.ac.kr.
*Web : https://www.gnu.ac.kr/stkang/main.do
*Blog : https://blog.naver.com/sootaek21c
*X(Twitter) : https://x.com/KangSootaek
*ResearchGate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sootaek-Kang
*Research Field : Social Theory and Thought, Sociology of Knowledge, Cultural Sociology.
[Education]
M.A., Sociology, Seoul National University, S-Korea, 1981.
Dr. rer. soc., Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany, 1991.
[Academic Career]
Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Lecturer in Department of Sociology, Gyeongsang National University (1981~2022).
Dean, College of Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University (2012~2013).
Dean, Graduate School of Public Administration, Gyeongsang National University (2012~2013).
Director of Institute for Human Rights & Social Development, Gyeongsang National University (2010~2011).
Director of Center for Unification-Peace-Human Rights, Gyeongsang National University (2009).
Visiting Scholar in Department of Sociology (Social Theory Centre), University of Warwick, UK (1998~1999).
Visiting Scholar in Department of Sociology (Center for Cultural Sociology), Yale University, USA (2005~2006).
Vice-President of Korean Sociological Association (2015).
Vice-President of Korean Society for Social Theory (2011~2012).
Chief Editor of Society and Theory, Journal of Korean Society for Social Theory (2003~2004).
[Publications (Book)]
The Parliamentary System is Coming. 2025. Seoul: Ehaksa (in Korean).
Pandemic, Social Division, and Solidarity. 2022. Jinju: GNU Press (in Korean).
Alfred Schutz. 2020. Seoul: Communication Books (in Korean).
Homo Solidarius. 2019. Seoul: KNOU Press (in Korean).
Ssial People and Solidarity - Seok-Heon Ham's Ideas of Solidarity. 2019. Seoul: Saemulgyul (in Korean).
Beyond Oppression and Marketization of the Solidarity - The Structural Change of Solidary Sphere in Korean Society. 2016. Jinju: GNU Press (in Korean).
Solidarism - Beyond Monadism. 2012. Seoul: Hangilsa (in Korean).
Civil Solidary Society. 2007. Seoul: Arche (in Korean).
Asking Again about the Intellectuals. 2001. Seoul: Samin (in Korean).
The Paradigm of Everyday Life. 1998. Seoul: Minumsa (in Korean).
Social Change and Postmaterialism in Korea. 2012. Sootaek Kang & Jae Heung Park (ed.). Seoul: Oruem Publishing House (in Korean).
[Academic Articles (English)]
"The Change of Solidary Spheres in the Global Pandemic Age" (Researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Society and Theory. vol. 37. 2020)
"Sociological Considerations for the Transformation of Korean Society from Split Type to Solidary Type" (Researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Korean Journal of Sociology. vol. 53. no. 2. 2019)
"Distribution of Social Man Types and the Social Development: Focused on Solidary Man and Economic Man" (ResearchGate.net) (original Korean article was published in Korean Journal of Social Theory. vol. 54. 2018)
"Social Scientific Humans and New Sociological Man" (ResearchGate.net) (original Korean article was published in Society and Theory. vol. 32. 2018)
"Monadism as Anti-Solidarism" (Researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Society and Theory. vol. 17. 2010)
"From Public Sphere into Solidary Sphere" (Researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Society and Theory. vol. 9. 2006)
"Civil Society, Civil Community, and Civil Solidary Society" (Researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Journal of Institute for Social Sciences (GNU). vol. 24/1. 2006)
“Modernity, Post-Modernity, and the Intellectual" (researchgate.net) (original Korean article was published in Korean Journal of Sociology. vol. 34. no. 3. 2000)