Research Catalog

Title

A sociology of Australian society / edited by John Western and Jake Najman.

Publication

South Yarra : Macmillan Education, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Western, John Stuart.
• Najman, Jakob M.

Description

474 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This new edition of a highly successful text reinforces its standing as a comprehensive introduction to the study of Australian society. With a fresh design format and introducing a new level of applied sociology, the book builds on the many strengths of the two previous editions.

Subject

• Sociology > Australia
• Social conditions
• Sociology
• Sozialstruktur
• Australia > Social conditions
• Australia
• Australien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Basic structures and concepts. 1. Sociology: the study of social structures and cultural reproduction / Jake M. Najman and John S. Western -- 2. The development of Australian society / Richard Grant and Elim Papadakis -- 3. Law in Australian society / Sharyn L. Roach Anleu -- 4. Class in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s / Mark Western -- 5. Gender inequality in Australian society / Janeen Baxter -- 6. Ethnicity in Australian society / Stephen Castles and Ellie Vasta -- 7. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Australian society / Lesley Jolly. Part II. Socially patterned behaviours. 8. Education and the social order: the effect of the private sector /Don S. Anderson -- 9. The future of work: employment and labour relations in Australia / Paul Boreham and Richard Hall -- 10. The health of the Australian population: priorities and needs / Jake M. Najman -- 11. Political behaviour: parties, voters and political stability / Ian McAllister -- 12. Crime in Australia / Toni Makkai -- 13. Lost illusions: leisure at the turn of the millennium / David Ip. Part III. Current issues and concerns. 14. Sport and Australian society / Jim McKay, John Hughson, Geoffrey Lawrence and David Rowe -- 15. The nuclear family in the twenty-first century / Michael Bittman -- 16. Youth in Australian society / Gary Easthope -- 17. Restructuring the Australian welfare state: social security in the 1980s and 1990s / Sheila Shaver -- 18. Higher education in Australia / Peter G. Carpenter and Martin Hayden -- 19. Cities of post-industrialism, cities of post-modernity / Patrick Mullins -- 20. Rural Australia / Perry Share, Geoffrey Lawrence and Ian Gray -- 21. Media abundance in the digital age / Julianne Schultz -- 22. Whither sociology? / John S. Western and Jake M. Najman.

ISBN

• 0732956951
• 9780732956950

LCCN

00343316

OCLC

• ocm44829659
• 44829659
• SCSB-8978852

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library