Kuo-Hsien Su

Kuo-Hsien Su

蘇國賢
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Title：Professor
Research Interests：Social Stratification and Social Mobility; Sociology of Organization; Social Network; Sociology of Religion
Tel：+886-2-3366-1229
Email：khsu@ntu.edu.tw
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Kuo-Hsien Su, PhD (khsu@ntu.edu.tw), is a Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University. He earned his undergraduate degree in History from the same institution before pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University, where he obtained both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He served as the dean of the College of Social Science at National Taiwan University from 2015 to 2018.

His research spans diverse domains within sociology, encompassing social stratification, social networks, sociology of religion, and sociology of organizations. His publications appear in journals such as the American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Social Mobility, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Academy of Management Journal.

Currently, Dr. Su is engaged in crafting a comprehensive book on social mobility in Taiwan while actively participating in a comparative survey endeavor across East Asia, titled Global East Religiosity and Changing Religious Landscapes.

EDUCATION

1995Ph.D. Sociology, Columbia University
1989M.A. Sociology, Columbia University
1985B.A. History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2007 – presentProfessor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 – 2018Dean, College of Social Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 – 2018Deputy Executive Office, D-School, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2014Deputy Director, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 – 2012Chair, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2003 – 2007Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
2000 – 2003Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
1996 – 2000Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1995 – 1996Lecturer, Department of Industrial Management, Chang Gung College of Medicine and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2019- 2021   Council member, East-Asia Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
2019- 2020     Editorial board, Journal of Population Studies (Taiwan)
2014 – 2016  Editor, Taiwanese Sociology
2005 – 2006   Associated editor, Taiwanese Sociology
2012 – 2016  Editorial board, Chinese Sociological Review

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE

1996 –2000Dean, College of Social Science, NTU
1995 – 1996Chair, Department of Sociology, NTU

Books & Edited Books

Yi, Chin-Chun and Kuo-Hsien Su (eds.), 2021. Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press (in Chinese).

Su, Kuo-Hsien, Miaw-Fen Lu, Ying-Hwa Chang, Kuan-Chung Huang. 2013. Autonomy and Accountability: Academic Professionalism in Humanities and Social Sciences in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press (in Chinese).

Journal Articles

  • Su, Kuo-Hsien and Ke-Hsien Huang. 2025. “Religious Belonging, Belief, and Practice in a Multi-Faith Context: A Comparison of Sole-affiliation Adherents and Individuals with Multiple Religious Identities.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. (accepted)
  • Yu, Wei-hsin, Kuo-Hsien Su, 2025. “Evaluation Criteria and Women’s Attainment of Elite STEM Education: Evidence from College Admission Records”. Sociological Science. 12: 357-387.
  • Yu, Wei-hsin, Kuo-Hsien Su, 2024. “Who Benefits from Elite Colleges’ Decreased Reliance on High-Stake Standardized Tests? Evidence from A Quasi-Field Experiment.” Research in Social Stratification and Social Mobility 98, Special Issue on Inequality in East Asia, James Raymo & Yu Xie (eds).(SSCI Q2, Sociology 61/219, JIF:2.0)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2020. “Changes in Core Network Size in Taiwan: A Comparison Between 1997 and 2017 Surveys.” Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 67: 63-134. (in Chinese)
  • Wei-hsin Yu, Lin, Zhiyong, Kuo-Hsien Su. 2019. “Parent-Child Coresidence and Experiences of Romantic Relationships: Evidence from Young Adults in Taiwan” Chinese Sociological Review 51(2): 173-206.
  • Lin, Zhiyong, Wei-hsin Yu, Kuo-Hsien Su. 2019. “Comparing Same- and Different-sex Relationship Dynamics: Experiences of Young Adults in Taiwan” Demographic Research 40: 431-362.
  • Yu, Wei-hsin, Kuo-Hsien Su, Chi-Tsun Chiu. 2012. “Sibship Characteristics and Transition to First Marriage in Taiwan: Explaining Gender Asymmetries” Population Research and Policy Review 31: 609-636.
  • Tsai, Wenpin, Kuo-Hsien Su, Ming-Jer Chen. 2011. “Seeing Through the Eyes of a Rival: Competitor Acumen Based on Rival-Centric Perceptions” Academy of Management Journal 54(4): 761-778.
  • Liu, Jeng, Arthur Sakamoto, and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2010. “Exploitation in Contemporary Capitalism: An Empirical Analysis of the Case of Taiwan. “ Sociological Focus 43(3): 259-281.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien & Wei-hsin Yu. 2007. “When Social Reproduction Fails: Explaining the Closing of the Ethnic Gap in Taiwan. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 39:1-63. (in Chinese)
  • Chen, Ming-Jer, Kuo-Hsien Su, Wenpin Tsai. 2007. “Competitive Tension: The Awareness-Motivation-Capability Perspective” Academy of Management Journal 50(1): 101-118.
  • Yu, Wei-hsin and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2006. “Gender, Sibship Structure, and Educational Inequality in Taiwan: Son Preference Revisited.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68:1057-1068.
  • Tseng, Chr-Hung, Cher-Min Fong, Kuo-Hsien Su. 2004. “The Determinants of MNC subsidiary initiatives implications for small business.” International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business 1: 92-114.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2004. “Social Production of Sociological Knowledge: Invisible Colleges among Sociologists in Taiwan.” Taiwanese Sociology 8: 133-192. (in Chinese)
  • Ishida, Hiroshi, Kuo-Hsien Su, and Seymour Spilerman. 2002. “Models of Career Progression in Japanese and U.S. Organizations.” European Sociological Review 18: 179-198.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2000. “Organizational Demography, Wage Dispersion, and Employee Turnover: An Organizational-level Investigation in Taiwan.” Sun Yat-sen Management Review, Vol. 8 (International Issue): 21-46.
  • Chen, Shin-tien and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2000. “The Determinants of Employee Turnover: An Analysis of Hi-tech Firms in Taiwan.” (Taiwan) Journal of Technology Management 5(2):57-80. (in Chinese)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien, Yeh Kuang S., and Shin-tien Chen. 1999. “Demographic Composition and Organizational Performance: An Analysis of Enterprises in Taiwan.” NTU Management Review 10(1): 1-38. (in Chinese)
  • Chen, Shin-tien, Kuo-hsien Su, and Yeh Kuang S. 1999. “The Organizational Determinants of Demographic Composition in Business Organizations.”(Taiwan) Journal of Management 16(4) : 581-612. (in Chinese)
  • El-Bassel, Nabila, Neil Guiterman, David Bargal, Kuo-hsien Su. 1998. “Main and Buffering Effects of Emotional Support on Job and Health Related Strains: A National Survey of Israeli Social Workers.”Employee Assistance Quarterly 13(3): 1-18.
  • Su, Kuo-hsien, Yeh Kuang S., and Shin-tien Chen. 1998. “An Analysis of the Determinants of Organizational Demography in Taiwan.” (Taiwan) Journal of Management 15(2): 319-341. (in Chinese)
  • Ishida, Hiroshi, Seymour Spilerman, and Kuo-Hsien Su. 1997. “Educational Credentials and Promotion Chances in a Japanese and American Organizations.” American Sociological Review 62(6): 866-882.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 1997. “Market Autonomy and Performance: A Network Analysis of Industrial Market Structure in Taiwan. Sun Yat-sen Management Review 5(2) : 315-338. (in Chinese)
  • Schilling, Robert, Nabila El-Bassel, Andre Ivanoff, Louisa Gilbert, Kuo-Hsien Su, and Steven Safyer. 1994. “Sexual Risk Behavior Among Incarcerated, Drug-Using Women.” Public Health Reports 109(4): 539-547.
  • El-Bassel, Nabila, Robert F. Schilling, Joanne E. Turnbull, and Kuo-Hsien Su. 1993. “Correlates of Alcohol Use among Methadone Patients.” Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 17(3): 681-686.

Book Chapters

  • Hyunjoon Park, Hiroshi Ishida, Kuo-Hsien Su. 2023. “Inequality and Stratification in East Asia.” In Markus Gangl, Lucinda Platt, Javier G. Polavieja, Herman G. van de Werfhorst (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Social Stratification (ISBN: 9780197539514), Oxford: Oxford University Press. Apr, 2023.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien and Chin-Chun Yi. 2021. “Introduction: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan” in Yi, Chin-Chun, Kuo-Hsien Su (eds.), Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press. (in Chinese)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2021. “Calling, Vocation, or Profession? Professionalization of Clergy in Taiwan.” in Yi, Chin-Chun, Kuo-Hsien Su (eds.), Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press. (in Chinese)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2021. “Work-Life Balance of Pastors in Taiwan” in Yi, Chin-Chun, Kuo-Hsien Su (eds.), Changing Christians, Changing Churches: A Sociological Analysis of Christianity in Taiwan. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2014. “Diversity in Faith: A Survey of Christian Congregation in Taiwan” in Yi, Chin-Chun. (ed.), Pp. 184-243. Christianity in Taiwan: 2012 Christian Belief and Social Survey. Taipei: Chunghau 21st Century Think Tank. (in Chinese) 
  • Chang, Shi-Chia and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2014. “Christian Belief, Experience, and Involvement in Taiwan” in Yi, Chin-Chun. (ed.), Pp. 142-183. Christianity in Taiwan: 2012 Christian Belief and Social Survey. Taipei: Chunghau 21st Century Think Tank. (in Chinese)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien and Lin Nan, 2014. “Status-based Differential Memory and Measurement of Social Capital: Recall Errors and Bias Estimations”, in Nan Lin, Yang-chih Fu, Chih-Jou Jay Chen (eds.), Pp. 64-80. Social Capital and Its Institutional Contingency: A Study of the United States, China, and Taiwan, London and New York: Routledge.
  • Yu, Wei-hsin and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2008. “Intergenerational Mobility Patterns in Taiwan: The Case of a Rapidly Industrializing Economy.” in Hiroshi Ishida (ed.) Social Stratification and Social Mobility in Late-Industrializing Countries. The 2005 SSM Research Series, Volume 14, Sendai, Japan: The 2005 SSM Research Committee.
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2008. “Trends of Income Distribution and Social Mobility in Taiwan” in Wang, Hong-zen et al. (eds.). Pp. 187-217. Taiwan.” Step in Forbidden Zones: Twenty Years Social Transformation in Taiwan, 1987-2008. Taipei: Socio Publishing Co., Ltd. (in Chinese) Yu, Wei-hsin and Kuo-Hsien Su. 2004. “On One’s Own: Self-Employment Activity in Taiwan.” in Arum, Richard and Walter Mueller (eds.). Pp.388-425. The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Textbooks

  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2012. “Social Network Analysis.” Pp.375-422 in Chiu, Hai-Yuan, H. D. Bih, Michelle Liou, Kuo-Shu Yang. (eds.) Research Method for Social and Behavior Science. Taipei: Tung-Hua Publisher. (in Chinese)
  • Su, Kuo-Hsien. 2008. “Social Class and Social Stratification.” Pp. 103-128 in Chiu, Hai-Yuan & J. H. Wang. (eds.) Sociology and Taiwan Society，Taipei: Chuliu Publisher. (in Chinese)

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