Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members

Titles nominated in the nomination process for The Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology

Homosexual : oppression and liberation by
   Altman, D. (1972 & 1993)

Trauma trails, recreating song lines: the transgenerational effects
of trauma in Indigenous Australia
by
   Atkinson, J. (2002)

Women, social welfare, and the state in Australia by

   Baldock, C.V. & Cass, B. (1983 & 1988)

Emotion, social theory and social structure : a macrosociological
approach
by
   Barbalet, J.M. (2001)

Social theory : a guide to central thinkers by
   Beilharz, P. (1991)

Radically speaking : feminism reclaimed by

   Bell, D. & Klein, R. (1996)

Accounting for tastes : Australian everyday cultures
by
   Bennett, T., Emmison, M. & Frow, J. (1999)

After the Odyssey : a study of Greek Australians by
   Bottomley, G. (1979)

Intersexions : gender, class, culture and ethnicity by

   Bottomley, G., De Lepervanche, M. & Martin, J. (1991)

Crime, shame and reintegration by
   Braithwaite, J. (1989)

Damned if we do : contradictions in women’s health care
by
   Broom, D. (1991)

Welfare and the state : who benefits? by

   Bryson, L. (1992)

An Australian newtown : life and leadership in a working-class
suburb
by
   Bryson, L. & Thompson, F. (1972)

Offending girls : sex, youth and justice by
   Carrington, K. (1993)

Mistaken identity : multiculturalism and the demise of nationalism
in Australia
by

   Castles, S., Cope B., Kalantzis, M. & Morrissey, M. (1988
& 1992)

Society and health : social theory for health workers
by
   Cheek, J., Shoebridge, Willis, E. & J. Zadoroznyj, M. (1996)

Masculinities by
   Connell, R.W. (1995)

Class structure in Australian history : poverty and progress
by

   Connell, R.W. & Irving, T.H. (1980 & 1992)

Making the difference : schools, families and social division
by
   Connell, R.W., Ashenden, D.W., Kessler, S. & Dowsett, G.W.
(1982)

Ruling class ruling culture : studies of conflict, power and hegemony
in Australian life
by
   Connell, R.W. (1977)

Gender and power : society, the person, and sexual politics
by

   Connell, R.W. (1987)

Postmodernization : change in advanced society by
   Crook, S., Pakulski, J. & Waters, M. (1992)

From subject to citizen : Australian citizenship in the twentieth
century
by
   Davidson, A. (1997)

Australian society : a sociological introduction by

   Davies, A. F. & Encel, S. (1965 & 1977)

Frogs and snails and feminist tales : preschool children and gender
by
   Davies, B. (1989)

Surveys in social research by
   de Vaus, D. (1986 & 2002)

Smalltown : a study of social inequality, cohesion and belonging
by

   Dempsey, K. (1990)

Regulation and repression : the study of social control
by
   Edwards, A. (1988)

Equality and authority : a study of class, status and power in
Australia
by
   Encel, S. (1970)

Gender at work by

   Game, A. & Pringle, R. (1984)

Australian families : a comparative perspective by
   Gilding, M. (1997)

Wild politics : feminism, globalisation, biodiversity
by
   Hawthorne, S. (2002)

Social self, global culture : an introduction to sociological
ideas
by

   Kellehear, A. (1996)

Capitalism and the countryside : the rural crisis in Australia
by
   Lawrence, G. (1987)

Social theory : the multicultural and classic readings
by
   Lemert, C. (1993 & 1999)

Faces on the campus : a psychosocial study by

   Little, G. (1975)

A new Britannia : an argument concerning the social origins of
Australian radicalism and nationalism
by
   MacQueen, H. (1970 & 1986)

The migrant presence : Australian responses 1947-1977 : research
report for the National Population Inquiry
by
   Martin, J.I. (1978)

Good and mad women : the historical construction of femininity
in twentieth-century Australia
by

   Matthews, J.J. (1984)

Settlers and the agrarian question : foundations of capitalism
in colonial Australia
by
   McMichael, P. (1984)

States, markets, families : gender, liberalism, and social policy
in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States
by
   O’Connor, J., Orloff, A. & Shaver, S. (1999)

The death of class by

   Pakulski, J. & Waters, M. (1996)

Health care & public policy : an Australian analysis
by
   Palmer, G. & Short, S. (1989 & 2000)

The sexual contract by
   Pateman, C. (1988)

Secretaries talk : sexuality, power & work by

   Pringle, R. (1988)

Economic rationalism in Canberra : a nation-building state changes
its mind
by
   Pusey, M. (1991)

Having families : marriage, parenthood and social pressure in
Australia
by
   Richards, L. (1978 & 1985)

Indonesia : the rise of capital by

   Robison, R. (1986)

Where it hurts : an introduction to sociology for health workers
by
   Russell, C. & Schofield, T. (1986)

Sociology for Australians / The new sociology for Australians
by
   Sargeant, M. (1983 & 1994)

Man made language by

   Spender, D (1980 & 1990)

Damned whores and God’s police : the colonization of women in
Australia
by
   Summers, A. (1975 & 2002)

Understanding multiculturalism and Australian identity
by
   Theophanous, A. (1995)

Living decently : material well-being in Australia by

   Travers, P. & Richardson, S. (1993)

The body and society : explorations in social theory
by
   Turner, B. (1984 & 1996)

Medical power and social knowledge by
   Turner, B.S. (1987 & 1995)

Feminism confronts technology by

   Wacjman, J. (1991)

Do it yourself social research by
   Wadsworth, Y. (1984 & 1997)

Modern sociological theory by
   Waters, M. (1994)

Social inequality in Australian society by

   Western, J.S. (1983)

Bradstow : a study of status, class and power in a small Australian
town
by
   Wild, R.A. (1974 & 1978)

Open cut : the working class in an Australian mining town
by
   Williams, C. (1981)

Medical dominance : the division of labour in Australian health
care
by

   Willis, E. (1983 & 1989)

Australian immigration : a survey of the issues by
   Wooden, M., Holton, R., Hugo, G. & Sloan, J. (1990 &
1994)

Bureaucrats, technocrats, femocrats : essays on the contemporary
Australian state
by
   Yeatman, A. (1990)

Postmodern revisionings of the political by

   Yeatman, A. (1994)