University administrators have had to establish committees to investigate student complaints while wealthy alumni have threatened to withhold financial contributions as a pressure tactic.
The camaraderie subsisting among public school alumni, which was notoriously crucial to the career trajectory of middle-class men, rested on an acknowledgement of their common juvenile experience.
The concept of relation-based welfare (yeon bokji) designates that the welfare provisions are produced within family, lineage, locality and alumni relationships and distributed through those relations.
In addition, there were alumni whose careers could not be represented - in a way that would lead them to recognise themselves - using only the two dimensions of time and identity.
Telephone interviews proved to be a successful means of collecting data from these alumni.
Senators retained ties to elite membership groups, including professional and business associations and college alumni clubs.
However, the stories told by some alumni were markedly more complex.
In the results section that follows, some comparisons are made with this reference g roup of 366 alumni.
