Salvatore Babones
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Room 250 Transient Building +612 9036 7663 |
Current Position:
Lecturer
Other offices held:
Editor for Global Development Studies, International Studies Association Compendium of International Studies
Secretary-Treasurer, Section on the Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association
Board Member, Research Committee 02 - Economy and Society, International Sociological Association
Research interests
Dr. Babones' research is centered around the study of income stratification in broad cross-national perspective. Income is the primary axis of social stratification in modern capitalist societies, and the degree of income stratification is now increasing in nearly every country of the world, including Australia. Neither the causes nor the potential consequences of this trend are well-understood. Recently, Dr. Babones has focused much of his work on methods for studying income stratification, particularly measurement issues and causal statistical modeling. He is also working improving our understanding of the relationship between income and health. Dr. Babones received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2003.
Current teaching
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
- 2006-2008: "Globalization and the World-Economy," United States National Science Foundation Sociology Program (USD 41,144)
- 2005-2006: "Pitt International Conference on Inequality, Health, and Society," University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh (USD 20,000)
- 2004-2006: "Global Income Allocation," Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh (USD 13,575)
Books
Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones (eds.). 2006. Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore (MD): The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chapters in Books
Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues." Pp. 144-161 in The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, George Ritzer, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Conducting Global Social Research." Pp. 8-30 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones, editors. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jonathan H. Turner and Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Global Inequality: An Introduction." Pp. 109-134 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones, editors. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Articles in Referred Journals
Salvatore J. Babones. 2008. "Income Inequality and Population Health: Correlation and Causality." Social Science & Medicine 66:1614-1626.
Salvatore J. Babones and Xi Zhang. 2008. "Heterogeneity in the Global South in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Foreign Trade." International Review of Modern Sociology 36:95-108.
Salvatore J. Babones, Kandi Felmet, and Jackie Hwang. 2007. "A Research Note: Investigating the Lag Structure of the Education - Income Inequality Relationship." Michigan Sociological Review 21:179-191.
Salvatore J. Babones and Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla. 2007. "Standardized Income Inequality Data for Use in Cross-National Research." Sociological Inquiry 77:3-22.
Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "The Political Economy of Polarized Pluralism." Party Politics 13:53-67.
Conference Papers / Addresses
Salvatore Babones. 2008. "Income Inequality, Population Health, and the Rationalization of Society." Keynote address, Global Studies Symposium, University of Pittsburgh.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Social Gradients in Disaster Risk, Resilience, and Recovery." Kobe University - University of Pittsburgh Joint Symposium on Sociotechnical Systems in Disaster Response.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Globalization, Economic Development, and Income Stratification." International Sociological Association RC28 Montreal Interim Conference on Cumulative Advantage: Education, Health, Wealth and Institutional Contexts.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Operationalizing 'Globalization' in Empirical Sociology." American Sociological Association 102nd Annual Meeting.
Raymond Dezzani and Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Measuring the Transmissivity of Economic Inequality Using Canonical Weighting Schemes with Gaussian Random Fields." Association of American Geographers 103rd Annual Meeting.
Salvatore J. Babones and Dorian C. Vonada. 2006. "Trade Globalization and National Income Inequality - Are They Related?" American Sociological Association 101st Annual Meeting.