Mark Beittel
Biographic Data
| ID | 179847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Beittel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Beittel |
| SIGNATURE | BEITTEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Toward A Global Sociology
This essay examines the response of U.S. sociologists to the growing call for a global sociology that can address both transnational social phenomena and international scholarly exchanges. We argue that existing research conceptions and agendas—rooted as they are in the comparative method, nationalist practices and units, and models of European-U.S. development—are ill-suited for grasping transnational phenomena and building a worldwide community…
Toward A GLOBAL Sociology?. Evaluating Current Conceptions, Methods, and Practices
The Witwatersrand
The proposition that the households of the urban working class in South Africa are sustained solely by wages has long beeen contradicted by evidence of non-wage sources of income. Over half a century ago, for example, the members of the Native Economic Commission contended that “the urbanized Native is dependent for the support of his family purely on his wages,” but noted that men's wages were so low that “most Native wives in urban areas have t…
Creating and Transforming Households
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy; periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the world-econom…
Mapantsula
(1990). Mapantsula: cinema, crime and politics on the Witwatersrand. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 751-760
The Hidden Abode of Reproduction
The Hidden Abode of Reproduction
Toward A Global Sociology
This essay examines the response of U.S. sociologists to the growing call for a global sociology that can address both transnational social phenomena and international scholarly exchanges. We argue that existing research conceptions and agendas—rooted as they are in the comparative method, nationalist practices and units, and models of European-U.S. development—are ill-suited for grasping transnational phenomena and building a worldwide community…
Mapantsula
(1990). Mapantsula: cinema, crime and politics on the Witwatersrand. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 751-760
The Hidden Abode of Reproduction
Mapantsula
(1990). Mapantsula: cinema, crime and politics on the Witwatersrand. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 751-760
The Witwatersrand
The proposition that the households of the urban working class in South Africa are sustained solely by wages has long beeen contradicted by evidence of non-wage sources of income. Over half a century ago, for example, the members of the Native Economic Commission contended that “the urbanized Native is dependent for the support of his family purely on his wages,” but noted that men's wages were so low that “most Native wives in urban areas have t…
Creating and Transforming Households
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy; periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the world-econom…
Toward A GLOBAL Sociology?. Evaluating Current Conceptions, Methods, and Practices
Toward A Global Sociology
This essay examines the response of U.S. sociologists to the growing call for a global sociology that can address both transnational social phenomena and international scholarly exchanges. We argue that existing research conceptions and agendas—rooted as they are in the comparative method, nationalist practices and units, and models of European-U.S. development—are ill-suited for grasping transnational phenomena and building a worldwide community…
Sociology (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Globalization and political ideologies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)