主题：Transition to Adulthood in Taiwan: The Longitudinal Influence of Family and Educational Context

主讲人：伊慶春 Chin-Chun Yi（臺灣中央研究院社會學研究所特聘研究員）

时间：2020年12月23日10:00-11:30

工作语言：中文（zoom线上会议）

主办单位：北京大学社会研究中心 北京大学社会科学学部

Chin-Chun Yi is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota.  Dr. Yi’s research interests include changing families in Chinese and East Asian societies, the intergenerational transmission of Value of Children, and the growth trajectories of youth from early adolescence to young adulthood.  Chin-Chun Yi has been an active member of the ISA since 1990 and was the president of RC06-committee on family research (2014-2018), the ISA executive committee member of Research Council (2010-2014-2018).  In addition to academic research, Dr. Yi was appointed the National Policy Advisor for the President (2011-2016), the Commissioner and Honorary Advisor for Taiwan Provincial Government (1994-1998) when she initiated and established the child protection program in Taiwan. Chin-Chun Yi has been in the editorial board of several international journals.

Due to the drastic social change over the last few decades with profound impact on almost all social aspects of life, transition to adulthood has aroused much attention.  In East Asia, the influence of traditional norms and modern ideologies from the West co-exists and has produced serious challenges to young people when moving into adulthood.  This speech will focus on Taiwanese youth and will focus on the longitudinal influence from the family as well as the school context. To illustrate the dominant impact of Chinese cultural background, the interplay of cultural norms and personal resources in conjunction with macro-structural changes in the diversified growth trajectory since early adolescence will be highlighted.  In particular, we emphasize that structural, relational as well as cultural mechanisms need to be considered in explaining the transitional process among Taiwanese youth.

Data are taken from the Taiwan Youth Project (TYP, 2000-2018) which is a longitudinal panel study since the year 2000 with 5600 adolescents (average age of 14) as initial samples.  TYP Phase I (2000-2009) and TYP Phase II (2011-2020) with youth main samples, parents, teachers, and spouse samples provide altogether 39 waves of datasets.  I’ll start with a brief introduction of the survey design of TYP and provide an overall profile of changing developmental patterns from early adolescence to young adulthood.  Earlier family experiences and educational attainment on subsequent individual well-being will be delineated to ascertain possible long term effects. To respond to the ultra-low marriage and fertility rate in Taiwan, married young adults will be compared with their unmarried counterparts in their current life quality with an attention to their various experiences over the life course.  Implication of the youth transition in Taiwan and in other Chinese societies will be discussed.