Sociology Publications

Books will be added to this page throughout the year.

Wright, Katie  (2011) The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change, New Academia Publishing

Marsh, Victor (ed) (2011) Speak Now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage, Clouds of Magellan

Franzway, Suzanne., Margaret Fonow, Mary (2011) Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labor. Further information is available from the publisher's website and the flyer.

Carl, J., Baker, S., Robards, B., Scott, J., Hillman, W., Lawrence, G (2011) THINK Sociology, Pearson

Jacobs, Keith (2011) Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia, Ashgate

Black, Rosalyn., Walsh, Lucas (2011) In Their Own Hands: Can young people change Australia? Read on...

Connell, Raewyn (2011) Confronting Equality: Gender, knowledge and global change, Allen & Unwin

Germov, John., Poole, Marilyn (eds) (2011)  Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society, Allen & Unwin

Stranger, Mark (2011) Surfing Life: Surface, Substructure and the Commodification of the Sublime, Ashgate

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Australia's New Aged, McCallum & Geiselhart

Blue, White and Pink Collar Workers in Australia, Claire Williams

Children and Families, Freda Briggs

Double Bind, Dorothy Broom

The Double Life of the Family, Michael Bittman & Jocely Pixley

Health Care Issues, Bates & Linder-Pelz

Illness and Social Relations, Evan Willis

In a Critical Condition, Alan Petersen

Juvenile Justice, Gale, Naffine, Wundersitz

Making Social Policy in Australia, Dalton, Draper, Weeks & Wiseman

Marriage Money, Supriyah Singh

Medical Dominance, Evan Willis

Offending Girls, Kerry Carrington

The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion, Vera Ranki

Reflective Researcher, Jan Fook

Regulation and Repression, Anne Edwards

Remaking the Body, Wendy Seymour

Rethinking Youth, Johanna Wyn & Rob White

Strife, Barbara Pocock

Surveys in Social Research, David de Vaus

The Teeth are Smiling, Ellie Vasta & Stephen Castles

Welfare Options, Judith Healy

Where it Hurts, Cherry Russell & Toni Schofield

Work, Organisations and Change, Stan Aungles & Stan Parker

All published by Allen & Unwin