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A sociology of Australian society / edited by Jake M. Najman and John S. Western.

Contributor(s): Publication details: South Yarra, [Vic.] : Macmillan, 2000.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 474 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0732956951 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.0994 SOC
Contents:
Part 1: Basic structures and concepts - 1. Sociology: the study of social structures and cultural reproduction - 2. The development of Australian society - 3. Law in Australian society - 4. Class in Austarlian in the 1980s and 1990s - 5. Gender inequality in Australian society - 6. Ethnicity in Australian society - 7. Aborigines and Torres Strait Ialanders in Australian society -- Part II: Socially patterned behaviours - 8. Education and the social order: the effect of the private sector - 9. The future of work: employment and labour relations in Australia - 10. The health of the Australian population: priorities and needs - 11. Political behaviour: parties, voters and political stability - 12. Crime in Australia - 13. Lost illusions: Leisure at the turn of the millennium -- Part III: Current issues and concerns - 14. Sport and Australian society - 15. The nuclear family in the twenty-first century - 16. Youth in Australian society - 17. Restructuring the Australian welfare state: social security in the 1980s and 1990s - 18. Higher education in Australia - 19. Cities of post-industrialism, cities of post-modernity - 20. Rural Australia - 21. Media abundance in the digital age - 22. Whither sociology?.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Basic structures and concepts - 1. Sociology: the study of social structures and cultural reproduction - 2. The development of Australian society - 3. Law in Australian society - 4. Class in Austarlian in the 1980s and 1990s - 5. Gender inequality in Australian society - 6. Ethnicity in Australian society - 7. Aborigines and Torres Strait Ialanders in Australian society -- Part II: Socially patterned behaviours - 8. Education and the social order: the effect of the private sector - 9. The future of work: employment and labour relations in Australia - 10. The health of the Australian population: priorities and needs - 11. Political behaviour: parties, voters and political stability - 12. Crime in Australia - 13. Lost illusions: Leisure at the turn of the millennium -- Part III: Current issues and concerns - 14. Sport and Australian society - 15. The nuclear family in the twenty-first century - 16. Youth in Australian society - 17. Restructuring the Australian welfare state: social security in the 1980s and 1990s - 18. Higher education in Australia - 19. Cities of post-industrialism, cities of post-modernity - 20. Rural Australia - 21. Media abundance in the digital age - 22. Whither sociology?.