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Sociology Books

As part of TASA’s aim to promote the work of Australian sociologists and raise the public profile of sociology, we encourage members to send us details of their past book publications by making use of our online form below. Please include the book author/s, title, year of publication and a link to the publisher.

2012 Book Publications

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2011 Book Publications

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2008 Book Publications

Gibson, Margaret (2008) Objects of the Dead: Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life, MUP, Melbourne.
(For more information please go to: http://catalogue.mup.com.au/978-0-522-85557-9.html)
Germov, J. & Williams, L. (eds) 2008, A Sociology of Food and Nutrition: The Social Appetite, 3rd edition, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
More info available: http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/social_science/sociology/9780195551501
Goodin, R. E., J. M. Rice, A. Parpo, and L. Eriksson (2008) Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
More details about this book can be found at the following location: http://www.cambridge.org/9780521709514
Ross Morrow (2008) Sex Research and Sex Therapy: A Sociological Analysis of Masters and Johnson, Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-415-40652-9
Barraket, J. (ed) (2008) Strategic Issues for the Not for Profit Sector, UNSW Press, Sydney.
Vanclay, F., Higgins, M. & Blackshaw, A. (eds) (2008) Making Sense of Place, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra.
(more details http://www.utas.edu.au/placenet/makingsense.htm)
Habibis, Daphne & Walter, Maggie (2008) Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures, Oxford University Press. Launched at the TASA conference, Melbourne, Dec. 2008. For further information click here to download the PDF.

2007 Book Publications

Blatterer, Harry (2007) Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Baldassar, L., Baldock, C. & Wilding, R. (2007) Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-4776-7.
Sargent, Margaret (2007) Older and Bolder: Challenges to Ageing. Publisher: Margaret Sargent.
Availability: Margaret Sargent, 1A Liverpool St, Bundeena, NSW 2230.
Price $19.95, Postage $2
Readership: General readers and Students of Ageing
Germov, J. and Poole, M. (eds) 2007, Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
Lee, M. (2007) Inventing Fear of Crime: Criminology and the Politics of Anxiety, Willan, cullompton.
Northcote, Jeremy (2007) The Paranormal and the Politics of Truth: A Sociological Account. Imprint Academic, Exeter. ISBN: 1-84540-071-2
Pam Nilan, Roberta Julian & John Germov 2007, Australian Youth: Social and Cultural Issues, Pearson Education Australia, Sydney.
Barclay, E., Donnermeyer, J., Scott, J., and Hogg, R. (eds) (2007) Crime in Rural Australia, Federation Press, Sydney.
Poynting, S and Morgan, G. (2007) Outrageous! Moral Panics in Australia, ACYS Press, Hobart.

2006 Book Publications

Cregan, Kate (2006) The Sociology of the Body: Mapping the Abstraction of Embodiment, Sage Publications, London. ISBN 0761940243
Crompvoets, Samantha (2006) Breast cancer and the post-surgical body: Recovering the self, Palgrave Macmillan: London.
Henman, Paul & Menno Fenger eds. (2006) Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance, Policy Press, Bristol.
Walter, M. (2006) (ed) Social Research Methods: An Australian Perspective. Oxford: Melbourne
Morgan, George (2006) Unsettled Places: Aboriginal People and Urbanisation in New South Wales, Wakefield Press, Adelaide.

2005 Book Publications

Banakar, R. and Max Travers eds. (2005) Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research, Hart.
Germov, J. and Tara McGee eds. (2005) Histories of Australian Sociology, MUP.
Howson, R. (2005) Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity. Routledge. London.
Possamai, Adam (2005) Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament, Peter Lang
Possamai, Adam (2005) In Search of New Age Spiritualities, Ashgate
Scott, J. (2005) How Modern Governments Made Prostitution a Social Problem: Creating a Responsible Prostitute Population. Edwin Mellen Press, New York. ISBN: 0-7734-6114-0
Scott, J. and Gail Hawkes eds. (2005) Perspectives in Human Sexuality. Oxford University Press, Melbourne. ISBN: 0 19 551701 6

As part of TASA's aim to promote the work of Australian sociologists and raise the public profile of sociology, we encourage members to send us details of their recent book publications by making use of our online form below.