Sociology

What is a fair wage?

Sociology gives us the tools we need to understand our life and the lives of the people around us.

'An alluvial goldfield of social theorists - nuggets lying around all over the place.

The opportunities and comfortable lifestyle available to most Australians have been denied to generations of Indigenous people.

'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this old continent.

What am I referring to when I say 'I'?

Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency.

Once everyone knew what the family was.

What am I referring to when I say 'I'?

The eminent scholar Lewis R.

The eminent scholar Lewis R.

** PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST 2025 **The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child from the bestselling memoirist of Don t Let s Go to the Dogs Tonight Truly extraordinary HELEN MACDONALD A mesmeric celebration.

The third edition of this classic text helps readers consider the myriad ways gendered attitudes and practices influence communication in our personal and professional interactions.

This volume addresses major issues and research in corrections and sentencing with the goal of using previous research and findings as a platform for recommendations about future research, evaluation, and policy.

This volume addresses major issues and research in corrections and sentencing with the goal of using previous research and findings as a platform for recommendations about future research, evaluation, and policy.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting and controversial in the history of human thought.

In this significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward's acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment, she examines how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism.

In this significantly revised second edition of Bronwyn Hayward's acclaimed book Children Citizenship and Environment, she examines how students, with teachers, parents, and other activists, can learn to take effective action to confront the complex drivers of the current climate crisis including: economic and social injustice, colonialism and racism.

The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Georg Simmel's work.

The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies documents the richness, variety, and creativity of contemporary international research on Georg Simmel's work.

Organisations are now focused on total customer satisfaction.

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon.

In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

Neoliberal globalization is in deep crisis.

Neoliberal globalization is in deep crisis.

The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual-it requires "e;changing the system.

The recognition is growing: truly addressing the problems of the 21st century requires going beyond small tweaks and modest reforms to business as usual-it requires "e;changing the system.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being.

Twenty-five million Americans-nearly 9 percent of the U.

Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice.

Contemporary Social Theory helps students explore, describe, and discuss how social theory relates to their own experiences, popular culture, and the world in which they live.

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno.

The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of `decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s.

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century.

Two-Faced Racism examines and explains the racial attitudes and behaviours exhibited by whites in private settings.

Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows?

For courses in Inequality, Social Stratification, and Social Problems.

Drawing on historical cases of the American South before and after the Civil War, Europe - especially Germany - between the world wars, and the United States in Vietnam and its aftermath, this book takes a historical approach to explain the problems of capitalism and democratic leadership in western democracies today.

This book provides a capsule description of what is known today about the particular aspect of grandparenting, whether it's gift-giving, adoption, travel, or discipline.

The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue.

This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner.

Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being.

Twenty-five million Americans-nearly 9 percent of the U.

Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice.

For courses in Inequality, Social Stratification, and Social Problems.

Two-Faced Racism examines and explains the racial attitudes and behaviours exhibited by whites in private settings.

Contemporary Social Theory helps students explore, describe, and discuss how social theory relates to their own experiences, popular culture, and the world in which they live.