Public Sociology
Public Sociology

Author: John Germov

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-22

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1000247023

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From the future of work to the nature of our closest relationships, how do we understand the links between our personal troubles and wider public issues in society today? Now into its fourth edition, Public Sociology continues to highlight the relevance of a grounded sociological perspective to Australian social life, as well as encouraging students to apply a sociological gaze to their own lives and the communities in which they live. Public Sociology presents a wide range of topics in a user-friendly and accessible way, introducing key theories and research methods, and exploring core themes, including youth, families and intimate relationships, class and inequality and race and ethnic relations. All chapters have been extensively revised to bring them up to date in a fast-changing social world, reflecting the latest sociological debates in response to changing lifestyles and evolving political landscapes. In addition to updated statistics and research findings, an expanded glossary and the latest citations to the scholarly literature, the text features a completely new chapter on gender and sexualities with expanded discussion of LGBTIQ+. This new edition also explores contemporary issues ranging from the #MeToo movement to marriage equality, fake news and 'alt facts'. This is the essential sociological reference to help students make sense of a complex and challenging world. NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION: * A new chapter on gender and sexualities and expanded discussion of intersectionality * Exploration of the latest social issues including #MeToo, rising inequality, and the 'post-truth' age * All chapters thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research * Updated book website with extra readings, YouTube clips, and case studies * A new feature, Visual Sociology, helps the reader analyse the power of visual messaging 'With a firm base in the richest traditions of the discipline and with a remarkably approachable format, this book offers an excellent introduction to a wide array of sociology's concerns, making it suitable for all Australian social science undergraduates.' Gary Wickham, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Murdoch University 'A sophisticated yet accessible introduction to social identities, differences and inequalities, and social transformations.' Jo Lindsay, Professor in Sociology, Monash University 'Sweeping and lucid...communicates with ease and simplicity.' Toni Makkai, Emeritus Professor, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

Australian Sociology
Australian Sociology

Author: David Holmes

Publisher: Pearson Australia

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1486007201

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Australian Sociology 4e provides a concise and current introduction to the field of Sociology, through an analysis of Australian society. In doing so, it draws on a diverse range of perspectives as well as a myriad of topics that go to issues at the core of Australian social life. Our ever-changing society presents continuing challenges to sociological analysis. This new edition of Australian Sociology sets out to document these many changes, while retaining an organised analysis required of an introductory overview of Australian society.

A Sociology of Australian Society
A Sociology of Australian Society

Author: Jake M. Najman

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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Revised edition of an introductory sociology text which includes two new chapters on rural Australia and higher education, and an expanded introduction. Considers the major structural division of society, and describes subsequent behaviour patterns. Deals with current issues and concerns, such as social disadvantage. Includes references and an index. The editors teach sociology at the University of Queensland. The 24 contributors have qualifications in fields such as sociology, politics and anthropology. Published simultaneously in hardback.

Australian Sociology
Australian Sociology

Author: David Holmes

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9780733978678

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"Australian Sociology, 2e provides students with a clear and concise introduction to the field of sociology through an analysis of Australian society. Our ever-changing society presents continuing challenges to sociological analysis. Examples include changes in political culture, media ownership laws, and industrial relations and workplace reforms. Furthermore, globalisation and the climate change phenomena offers challenges for all Australians. This new edition of Australian Sociology sets out to document these many changes, while retaining an organised analysis required of an introductory overview of Australian society."--BOOK JACKET.

Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Aboriginal Art and Australian Society

Author: Laura Fisher

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2016-05-30

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1783085320

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This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with money, and its mediation of the politics of identity and recognition, this study illuminates the mutability of Aboriginal art’s meanings in different settings. It reveals that this mutability is a consequence of the fact that a range of governmental, activist and civil society projects have appropriated the art’s vitality and metonymic power in national public culture, and that Aboriginal art is as much a phenomenon of visual and commercial culture as it is an art movement. Throughout these examinations, Fisher traces the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have crystallised around the Aboriginal art movement and which manifest the ethical conundrums that underpin the settler state condition.

Law in Australian Society
Law in Australian Society

Author: Keiran Hardy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367718572

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An introductory guide to the nature of law and government in Australia suitable for beginners.

Fields, Capitals, Habitus
Fields, Capitals, Habitus

Author: Tony Bennett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-15

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781138392298

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Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian cultural tastes and practices, it demonstrates the pivotal significance of the role culture plays at the intersections of a range of social divisions and inequalities: between classes, age cohorts, ethnicities, genders, city and country, and the relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The book looks first at how social divisions inform the ways in which Australians from different social backgrounds and positions engage with the genres, institutions, and particular works of culture and cultural figures across six cultural fields: the visual arts, literature, music, heritage, television, and sport. It then examines how Australians' cultural preferences across these fields interact within the Australian 'space of lifestyles'. The close attention paid to class here includes an engagement with role of 'middlebrow' cultures in Australia and the role played by new forms of Indigenous cultural capital in the emergence of an Indigenous middle class. The rich survey data is complemented throughout by in-depth qualitative data provided by interviews with survey participants. These are discussed more closely in the final part of the book which explores the gendered, political, personal and community associations of cultural tastes across Australia's Anglo-Celtic, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese and Indian populations. The distinctive ethical issues associated with how Australians relate to Indigenous culture are also examined. In the light it throws on the formations of cultural capital in a multicultural settler colonial society, Fields, Capitals, Habitus makes a landmark contribution to cultural capital research.

Australian Sociology
Australian Sociology

Author: K. Harley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1137379758

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Battered and bruised by injuries (often self-inflicted) sustained in the first half of the twentieth century since 1950 sociology in Australia has fought its way back into the academic mainstream. This has not been easy; its fortunes seem forever mixed – good in some places and dismal in others. But it has proved itself resilient, it is a survivor.