Sociology

By:   Robert Van Krieken, Daphne Habibis, Philip Smith, Karl Maton, Greg Martin
Imprint:   Pearson Education Australia
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   7th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 274mm,  Width: 219mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   1.286kg
ISBN:   9781488624605
ISBN 10:   1488624607
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   28 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Robert van Krieken is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, where he played a central role in establishing a distinct sociology program from 1991 onwards, as well as setting up a program in socio-legal studies in 2006. Between 2009 and 2011, he was Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin, where he remains a Visiting Professor. Robert is also an Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has done research on the historical sociology of child welfare in Australia, the Stolen Generations, processes of civilisation and decivilisation, the sociology of organisations, cultural genocide, criminology, law and social theory, and celebrity, as well contributing to the theoretical debates around the work of Elias, Foucault, Luhmann and Latour. His most recent publication is Celebrity Society: The Struggle for Attention (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2019) Daphne Habibis is a sociologist and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Born in London, she completed her BSc and PhD degrees at the London School of Economics and worked as a social worker before migrating to Australia. At the University of Tasmania she was the Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, and Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change. She has over 80 publications and has attracted over $5 million in funding, including grants from the Australian Research Council. Her research is both pure and applied and centres on the intersection between the state and vulnerable social groups. In recent years, much of her work has focused on issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, especially in relation to housing, where she has explored the intersection between Aboriginal aspirations for self-determination and the state's agenda of active citizenship for Aboriginal people. Philip Smith has an MA in Anthropology from Edinburgh and a PhD in Sociology from UCLA. He worked at the University of Queensland from 1993 to 2002, where for a time he was head of both the sociology and criminology programs. He is currently Professor in Sociology at Yale University. Philip is known as a member of Yale's Strong Program in Cultural Sociology, and his work argues for the role of deep meanings in shaping cultural life. His most recent work considers the evolution of the sociological tradition established by Emile Durkheim. Karl Maton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Director of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building, Visiting Professor at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University (South Africa). Karl has published extensively in sociology, education and linguistics. He is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), which is now being widely used by researchers worldwide for both framing research and shaping practice. LCT is the key theoretical framework for over 350 publications, over 150 PhD studies, over 500 conference papers and numerous major grants. Karl's work has been the focus of three International Legitimation Code Theory Conferences in Cape Town (2015), Sydney (2017) and Johannesburg (2019). LCT is also being widely used to shape teaching and learning practices at all levels of education. Karl's book, Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of Education (Routledge, 2014), sets out key concepts from LCT and was published to widespread critical acclaim. A primer showing how to use LCT in research, Knowledge building: Educational Studies in Legitimation Code Theory (Routledge), was published in 2016. Karl is Series Editor of the 'Legitimation Code Theory' book series by Routledge (2016). Greg Martin is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. After obtaining his degree in sociology from the University of Exeter, Greg conducted ethnographic fieldwork among New Age travellers for his PhD, which he also completed at Exeter. Subsequently, he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, taught in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Keele University, was a Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, travelled the world, completed a law degree at the University of Western Australia, and worked in legal publishing. Before moving to the University of Sydney, Greg was a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Western Sydney. He has published widely in areas as diverse as sociology, social policy, politics, criminology and law. Greg is the author of Crime, Media and Culture (Routledge, 2019) and Understanding Social Movements (Routledge, 2015), and co-editor of Secrecy, Law and Society (Routledge, 2015). He is an Editor of The Sociological Review (Britain's oldest sociology journal), Associate Editor of Crime Media Culture and an Editorial Advisory Board member of Social Movement Studies. Brendan Churchill has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tasmania. He is currently a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, where is undertaking research on the changing nature of work and what the future of work might look like, including the emergence of the gig economy. His research also examines social change within families and personal relationships, often taking a gender and sexuality focus. Brad West is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of South Australia. He attained his PhD at the University of Queensland and has held previous academic positions in Australia at Flinders University and the University of Newcastle as well as in England at the University of Bristol and King's College London. His research has focused on comprehending changes to Australian national identity. This has included an array of studies of natural disasters, international travel experiences, consumption spaces, media representations of terrorism and military organisation. Brad is the co-founder of Self@Arts, which runs a drama-based resilience-building program for the Australian Army. Emily Hansen is a sociologist whose areas of specialisation are medical sociology and qualitative research methods. Emily is employed as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Sociology and Criminology program at the University of Tasmania. She has taught first-year sociology for the past five years and greatly enjoys introducing students to the field. Before becoming a lecturer, Emily worked for 10 years as an applied researcher in primary healthcare. She has retained a strong interest in studying the social aspects of health-related practices such as smoking cessation and breastfeeding, and in the sociology of medical processes such as diagnosis. Her health-related research has a high rate of translation and has resulted in changes to national and state-level policies, clinical guidelines and practice related to dementia care, hypertension, smoking during pregnancy, early childhood services and infant feeding.