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Journal of Asian Sociology

Journal of Asian Sociology

  • Frequency : 4 issues/year
  • ISSN : 2671-4574(Print) / 2671-8200(Online)
  • Publisher : The Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National University, Korea
  • Editor in Chief : Kim, Seok-ho
  • Contact : jasoceditor@gmail.com / +82 2 880 4240
  • Indexed in SCOPUS
Journal of Asian Sociology (JAS) is one of the most established academic journals for social science in English-language published by the Institute of Social Development and Policy Research (ISDPR) at Seoul National University. Founded as Bulletin of the Population and Development Studies Center in 1972 and evolving into Korea Journal of Population and Development from 1990 to 1997, and then Development and Society from 1998 to 2018, JAS has more than 40 years of history. JAS is currently indexed in SCOPUS and is also included in JSTOR archive.
With its main focus on Asia, and especially the East Asian region, JAS provides path breaking works from social, cultural, political to economic field, and discusses various sociological issues such as inequality, social change, policy, labor, environment, social quality, demographic change and so on. The journal presents empirical analysis and theoretical discussions on important topics of modern society, including culture, economics, politics, demographics and the varied sociological issues that emerge in the Asian region.

Journal of Asian Sociology

Volume 54 Number 4, December 2025

CONTENTS
Articles
  • Living with “Slow Disaster”: Collective Efficacy, Local Wisdom, and Community Resilience in Post‐Tsunami Aceh

    Saiful Mahdi, Yunjeong Joo, Samia Sakinah Mahdi, SungYong Lee, Muhammad Riza Nurdin, and Rahmadhania

  • The Contingent Cost of Structural Failure: How Gender, Employment, and Solo Living Condition Depression Risk in Young South Koreans

    Minjung Kyung and Doohwan Kim

  • Spousal Relationship Change during COVID-19 in South Korea: A PPCT Model Analysis

    Seulki Choi, Eunhee Joung, Saeeun Choi, Kwangman Ko, and Da-eun Kwan

  • From Population Policy to Demographic Strategy: Lessons from Germany’s “Every Age Counts” Approach

    Casper H. Claassen, Youngtae Cho, and Junki Kim

  • The Effect of Immigrant Mothers’ Educational Attainment on the Academic Achievement of Multicultural Adolescents: Utilizing Contextual Attainment

    Jiwon Moon and Seokho Kim


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