Transcript Jeong-Woo Koo

Surveys and Human Rights: Local Reception of International Norms,
Mexico City, November 12 & 13, 2015
The Origins, Structure, and
Consequences of the National Human
Rights Survey of South Korea
Jeong-Woo Koo
Visiting Professor, Harvard-Yenching Institute
Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
Origins
The Establishment of National Human
Rights Commission (NHRCK)
Survey as a Way of Monitoring
Human Rights Abuses
Source: www.pressian.com
Sociologists Trained in the U.S
Features
Exclusively devoted to human rights issues
ISDPR(Institute of Social Development and Policy Research),
Hyundai Survey Company, and NHRCK
WHAT
WHO
To monitor human rights
Through a nationally representative sample (N=1,500)
WHY
HOW
Principles
Temporal comparability
Cross-national comparability
Comprehensiveness—horizontal (breadth)
and vertical (depth)
Particularity
Structure
Explanatory:
Demographic,
SES, social
capital, media
exposure, and
globalism
Horizontal:
Civil and political
rights; economic,
social, and cultural
rights; minority
rights, human rights
education, and
human rights
institutions
Vertical:
Knowledge/awareness,
attitudes, behavior, and
experiences
Consequences
Little Impacts on Practices
Facilitating Research
Motivating Similar Surveys on
Particular Issues and/or Groups
Supplementing Human Rights
Indicators/Indexes
Giving Rise to Human rights
Sensitivity Test
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