Jason Beckfield
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Biographical Note
JASON BECKFIELD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is interested in stratification, health, and social policy in the context of economic and political "globalization." His current work focuses on the consequences of European integration for economic inequality among and within the nation-states of Western Europe, and the impact of European integration on national welfare policy and differences among welfare states. Using macro- economic and archival data from 17 countries, this project develops a sociology of regional integration by establishing some of its general effects, distinguishing regionalization from globalization, and building a political-institutional approach that highlights conflict and inequality. His other projects include an analysis of the associational structure and policy effects of international organizations, an examination of the relationship between national income inequality and population health, a study of the world city system (with Arthur S. Alderson), and an investigation of the relationship between economic globalization and the welfare state (with David Brady and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser).
05/08/2008
Courses Offered This Academic Year
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Sociology 255 ( fall 2007 ) |
Social Stratification: Seminar | Catalog #3839 |
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A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years
| Sociology 263 | Globalization & Comparative Inequality |
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| Sociology 308 | Economic Sociology Workshop |
| Sociology 24 | Introduction to Social Inequality |
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