Matthew Mckeever
Biographic Data
| ID | 156679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Mckeever |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeever |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEEVER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7869-8232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social stratification and inequality in South Africa
South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world. Moreover, research shows that inequality has only risen since advent of multi‐party democracy in 1994. In this article, I review research that documents how economic inequality has formed over the past century, and the relationship between these structural conditions and contemporary social stratification. The literature shows that since the end of apartheid racial inequality has…
Predicates, parts, and impermanence
In this article, I argue that recent work in analytic philosophy on the semantics of names and the metaphysics of persistence supports two theses in Buddhist philosophy, namely the impermanence of objects and a corollary about how referential language works. According to this latter package of views, the various parts of what we call one object (say, King Milinda) possess no unity in and of themselves. Unity comes rather from language, in that we…
Educational Inequality in Apartheid South Africa
In this article, I explore the utility of effectively maintained inequality theory in examining educational inequality in South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. As an obviously unequal country, South Africa provides an excellent opportunity to test the claim that even with large quantitative differences in achievement, qualitative differences will matter. Using data from the early 1990s, I find that there were extensive quantitative differ…
Class in Soweto
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Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
Regional Institutions and Social Development in Southern Africa
Regional institutions increasingly shape economic and political development in Southern Africa. In this review, I discuss the historical background of this region and examine the major regional institutions that address key common concerns of economic development, trade, regional migration, and shared natural resources. I also discuss the challenges for, and to, regional integration, including competition among different regional organizations, p…
Fall back or spring forward
Ethnic Inequalities and Educational Attainment in Taiwan
In this article, the authors examine educational stratification in Taiwan against the background of an ethnically based political economy. They investigate how educational attainment is related to ethnicity and other background factors, such as parental class and education, and if these relationships changed over time as Taiwan became a more industrial and democratic society. The findings reveal that while children from Mainlander families are ov…
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 18
Developing Poverty
Reexamining the Economic Costs of Marital Disruption for Women
Objective . Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method . We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well‐being of women whose marriages ended between the first and second waves of data collection. Results . Comparing pre‐ and postmarital median per capita income shows that marital disruption now…
Generational Differences in Attitudes and Socioeconomic Status among Hispanics in Houston
The complex variety of experiences that characterize the current wave of immigration have prompted revisions in the classic model of straight-line assimilation; the most important alternative theory is based on the concept of 'segmented' assimilation. This paper assesses the validity of these two perspectives with data on three generations of Hispanic immigrants in Houston. Contrary to the standard assimilation model, third-generation Hispanics a…
Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree oi'Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Reproduced Inequality
The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary
Eric Hanley, Matthew McKeever, The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary: Trajectory-Maintenance versus Counterselection, Sociology of Education, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-18
Racial differences in occupational status and income in South Africa, 1880 and 1881
Using data on employed men from the 1980 and 1991 South African Censuses, we analyze the determinants of occupational status and income. Whites are found to have much higher occupational status, and especially income, than members of other racial groups. Most of the racial differentials in occupational status can be explained by racial differences in the personal assets that determine occupational attainment (especially education), but only a muc…
Reexamining the Economic Costs of Marital Disruption for Women
Objective . Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method . We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well‐being of women whose marriages ended between the first and second waves of data collection. Results . Comparing pre‐ and postmarital median per capita income shows that marital disruption now…
The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary
Eric Hanley, Matthew McKeever, The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary: Trajectory-Maintenance versus Counterselection, Sociology of Education, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-18
Racial differences in occupational status and income in South Africa, 1880 and 1881
Using data on employed men from the 1980 and 1991 South African Censuses, we analyze the determinants of occupational status and income. Whites are found to have much higher occupational status, and especially income, than members of other racial groups. Most of the racial differentials in occupational status can be explained by racial differences in the personal assets that determine occupational attainment (especially education), but only a muc…
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Generational Differences in Attitudes and Socioeconomic Status among Hispanics in Houston
The complex variety of experiences that characterize the current wave of immigration have prompted revisions in the classic model of straight-line assimilation; the most important alternative theory is based on the concept of 'segmented' assimilation. This paper assesses the validity of these two perspectives with data on three generations of Hispanic immigrants in Houston. Contrary to the standard assimilation model, third-generation Hispanics a…
Ethnic Inequalities and Educational Attainment in Taiwan
In this article, the authors examine educational stratification in Taiwan against the background of an ethnically based political economy. They investigate how educational attainment is related to ethnicity and other background factors, such as parental class and education, and if these relationships changed over time as Taiwan became a more industrial and democratic society. The findings reveal that while children from Mainlander families are ov…
Social stratification and inequality in South Africa
South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world. Moreover, research shows that inequality has only risen since advent of multi‐party democracy in 1994. In this article, I review research that documents how economic inequality has formed over the past century, and the relationship between these structural conditions and contemporary social stratification. The literature shows that since the end of apartheid racial inequality has…
Regional Institutions and Social Development in Southern Africa
Regional institutions increasingly shape economic and political development in Southern Africa. In this review, I discuss the historical background of this region and examine the major regional institutions that address key common concerns of economic development, trade, regional migration, and shared natural resources. I also discuss the challenges for, and to, regional integration, including competition among different regional organizations, p…
Fall back or spring forward
Reproduced Inequality
Educational Inequality in Apartheid South Africa
In this article, I explore the utility of effectively maintained inequality theory in examining educational inequality in South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. As an obviously unequal country, South Africa provides an excellent opportunity to test the claim that even with large quantitative differences in achievement, qualitative differences will matter. Using data from the early 1990s, I find that there were extensive quantitative differ…
Racial differences in occupational status and income in South Africa, 1880 and 1881
Using data on employed men from the 1980 and 1991 South African Censuses, we analyze the determinants of occupational status and income. Whites are found to have much higher occupational status, and especially income, than members of other racial groups. Most of the racial differentials in occupational status can be explained by racial differences in the personal assets that determine occupational attainment (especially education), but only a muc…
The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary
Eric Hanley, Matthew McKeever, The Persistence of Educational Inequalities in State-Socialist Hungary: Trajectory-Maintenance versus Counterselection, Sociology of Education, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jan., 1997), pp. 1-18
Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree oi'Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Reproduced Inequality
Generational Differences in Attitudes and Socioeconomic Status among Hispanics in Houston
The complex variety of experiences that characterize the current wave of immigration have prompted revisions in the classic model of straight-line assimilation; the most important alternative theory is based on the concept of 'segmented' assimilation. This paper assesses the validity of these two perspectives with data on three generations of Hispanic immigrants in Houston. Contrary to the standard assimilation model, third-generation Hispanics a…
Reexamining the Economic Costs of Marital Disruption for Women
Objective . Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method . We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well‐being of women whose marriages ended between the first and second waves of data collection. Results . Comparing pre‐ and postmarital median per capita income shows that marital disruption now…
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 18
Developing Poverty
Fall back or spring forward
Ethnic Inequalities and Educational Attainment in Taiwan
In this article, the authors examine educational stratification in Taiwan against the background of an ethnically based political economy. They investigate how educational attainment is related to ethnicity and other background factors, such as parental class and education, and if these relationships changed over time as Taiwan became a more industrial and democratic society. The findings reveal that while children from Mainlander families are ov…
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
Regional Institutions and Social Development in Southern Africa
Regional institutions increasingly shape economic and political development in Southern Africa. In this review, I discuss the historical background of this region and examine the major regional institutions that address key common concerns of economic development, trade, regional migration, and shared natural resources. I also discuss the challenges for, and to, regional integration, including competition among different regional organizations, p…
Thanks for nothing
Class in Soweto
Educational Inequality in Apartheid South Africa
In this article, I explore the utility of effectively maintained inequality theory in examining educational inequality in South Africa at the end of the apartheid era. As an obviously unequal country, South Africa provides an excellent opportunity to test the claim that even with large quantitative differences in achievement, qualitative differences will matter. Using data from the early 1990s, I find that there were extensive quantitative differ…
Predicates, parts, and impermanence
In this article, I argue that recent work in analytic philosophy on the semantics of names and the metaphysics of persistence supports two theses in Buddhist philosophy, namely the impermanence of objects and a corollary about how referential language works. According to this latter package of views, the various parts of what we call one object (say, King Milinda) possess no unity in and of themselves. Unity comes rather from language, in that we…
Social stratification and inequality in South Africa
South Africa is the most economically unequal country in the world. Moreover, research shows that inequality has only risen since advent of multi‐party democracy in 1994. In this article, I review research that documents how economic inequality has formed over the past century, and the relationship between these structural conditions and contemporary social stratification. The literature shows that since the end of apartheid racial inequality has…
Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)