About Sociology

Sociology has become a central component of multi-disciplinary teaching, learning and research.

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)