Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Sociology has achieved successive awards at domestic and international academic conferences through the outstanding research capabilities of its next-generation scholars, encompassing both graduate and undergraduate students.

Yoon A‑young, a doctoral candidate in the Department, recently received the 'New Scholar Award for Next-Generation Academics' at the Fall Conference of the Korean Association for Cultural Sociology held at Yonsei University.

In the Young Scholars Symposium session, Yoon presented a paper titled 'The Construction of the Vulnerable Boy: The Justification by Neuroscience and the Production of Gender Conflict.' Her work was praised as a sociological analysis of how neuroscientific discourse defines and legitimizes a particular gender as vulnerable and how this process produces gender conflict.

Undergraduate students' academic achievements also stood out on the international stage. At the 2025 World Conference on Visual Sociology held last year at Ajou University, JBNU Department of Sociology undergraduate student Yoon Ga‑on (Class of 2024) received the Grand Prize, and Kim Ji‑yun, Son Ye‑eun, and Lee So‑ri (all Class of 2024) received Excellence Awards in the undergraduate poster presentation category.

This is considered a meaningful achievement, as it demonstrates that undergraduates led the research and had their work recognized at an international conference.

Eun‑ju Cho, Chair of the Department, said, 'The department's active culture of scholarly discussion and its systematic research supervision system are bearing fruit. We will continue to actively support the scholarly activities and growth of the next-generation scholars based on a research environment that organically links the undergraduate and graduate programs.'