Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members
Dates of the Conference:
01 to 04 December 2009Location of the Conference: The Australian National University, Canberra
Title of the Conference Proceedings:
The Future of Sociology
Publisher:
Published by TASA
Compilation and Production:
Conference Solutions
Place of Publication:
Canberra, Australia
ISBN Number:
978-0-646-52501-3
Editors:
Stewart Lockie, David Bissell, Alastair Greig, Maria Hynes, David Marsh, Larry Saha, Joanna Sikora and Dan Woodman; (Eds)
Date of Publication:
December 2009
Copyright:
© Copyright remains with the authors
The papers in these conference proceedings are fully refereed papers subject to blind peer review. This procedure was designed to satisfy the conditions required by the Australian Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Theme: Social Causes, Private Lives
Host: Macquarie University - Department of Sociology
Conference Contact: soc.mq.edu.au/tasa-conference
The 2010 TASA conference is dedicated to the reassertion of sociology as an engaged, critical discipline. Individual responsibility has become the dominant economic and political program, and for many an internalised fact of life. Sociology needs to vigorously reassert its core tasks: to contextualise private lives in the social condition and cultural temper of the times; and so to confidently take a critical position vis-a-vis economic, political and cultural processes in its own social environment and various domains.