Health and Social Behavior
Explore health and health-related behavior through a sociological lens, connecting social relationships and inequality with empirical research.
SOC4046 · 2025–2026 Syllabus
Teaching
From social questions
to empirical inquiry.
My teaching connects sociological theory with research on health, aging, social relationships, and inequality.
Across courses and workshops, I emphasize turning broad questions into testable claims and evidence-based arguments.
Selected courses
Hanyang University · 2025–2026
Social Problems
Use sociological perspectives and evidence to examine social problems and develop arguments about their causes and consequences.
SOC3032 · 2025–2026 Syllabus
Medical Sociology Seminar
Engage with sociological questions about health and illness through critical reading and discussion of theory and empirical research.
SOC9116 · 2025–2026
Social Networks and Social Capital
Examine how social relationships are structured, what resources they provide, and how network perspectives inform sociological research.
SOC9115 · 2025–2026
Methods workshops
Applied training for researchers
Latent Class and
Latent Transition Analysis
Identify unobserved population subgroups and trace movement between them over time.
Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School
Invited sessions: APRU Population Aging Program and Korea University, 2022
Multi-wave Panel Data Analysis
Work with repeated-observation data, focusing on change over time and the interpretation of longitudinal associations.
Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
Earlier teaching
Courses and teaching roles
Hanyang University
Instructor · 2024
- Sociology and the New Industrial Revolution
Undergraduate · SOC1055 - Intermediate Social Statistics
Graduate · SOC9109
Hong Kong Baptist University
Instructor · 2023–2024
- Careers and Life Courses · SOCI3027
- Globalization · SOCI4016
National University of Singapore
Teaching Assistant · 2015–2018
- Data Analysis in Social Research · 2018
- Sociology of Life Course and Ageing · 2017
- Understanding Globalization · 2016
- Making Sense of Society · 2015
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