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Sociology Australia
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Sociology gives us the tools we need to understand our life and the lives of the people around us. It reveals that our commonsense view of the world isnt always right, and enables us to find out what actually shapes our experiences.

In this widely used and very readable introductory text, Judith Bessant and Rob Watts show us how to develop a sociological perspective on what is happening in Australia today. Rapid and far-reaching social changes are taking place which affect us all: globalisation is impacting on our economy and culture; technological developments increase the pace of life; and many people worry about the decline of traditional values and about environmental and personal security. Using a sociological perspective we can explain why different groups of people experience these changes as exciting, unsettling or devastating.

Sociology Australia is structured around six key questions:

* What is sociology?

* Who are we and how do we come to be who we are?

* How do we know the world in which we live?

* Can we make our lives as we want them?

* Who makes the decisions that shape our society?

* What changes are taking place in Australia today?

Sociology Australia is an ideal introduction to the discipline of sociology and to the dynamics of Australian society today. This third edition of Sociology Australia has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new chapters on religion, education and sustainability.

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SOCIOLOGY AUSTRALIA

THIRD EDITION

Judith Bessant & Rob Watts

First published 2007 by Allen & Unwin

Published 2020 by Routledge

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National Library of Australia

Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Bessant, Judith.

Sociology Australia.

3rd ed.

Bibliography.

Includes index.

1. Sociology Australia. 2. Social change Australia. 3.

Australia Social conditions 21st century. 4.

Australia Social policy. I. Watts, Rob. II. Title.

301.0994

Set in 10/14 pt ITC Galliard by Midland Typesetters, Australia

Text design by Lisa White

Photo credits: Pedro Almeida, Matthew John and Sharyn Finger

ISBN-13: 9781741750164 (pbk)

CONTENTS

PART ONE: WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?

Sociology in an age of insecurity

Reading sociology

Making sense of sociology

Doing sociology

Ethics and sociology

PART TWO: IDENTITY: BEING YOURSELF, BEING AUSTRALIAN

Ourselves: Myself, yourself

Ourselves in families

Being young: Age and identity

Sex in Australia

Religion in Australia

Identity, multiculturalism and imagined community

PART THREE: GLOBALISATION, AUSTRALIA AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Australians at work

Confronting class and inequality

Inequality in Australia

Education in a period of crisis

Health and illness in an unequal society

Crime, deviance and power

Knowing the worldThe Australian media

Sustainability

Conclusion: Australia and globalisation

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Part One: What is Sociology?
1. 1 Sociology in an age of insecurity
2. 2 Reading sociology
3. 3 Making sense of sociology
4. 4 Doing sociology
5. 5 Ethics and sociology
Part Two: Identity: Being Yourself, Being Australian
1. 6 Ourselves: Myself, yourself
2. 7 Ourselves in families
3. 8 Being young: Age and identity
4. 9 Sex in Australia
5. 10 Religion in Australia
6. 11 Identity, multiculturalism and imagined community
Part Three: Globalisation, Australia and Social Change
1. 12 Australians at work
2. 13 Confronting class and inequality
3. 14 Inequality in Australia
4. 15 Education in a period of crisis
5. 16 Health and illness in an unequal society
6. 17 Crime, deviance and power
7. 18 Knowing the worldThe Australian media
8. 19 Sustainability
9. 20 Conclusion: Australia and globalisation
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There are many people without whom this edition of the book could not have been written. First and always, there are our studentspast and present. We express our gratitude to those students we have taught through the 1990s and into the 2000s. We have relied upon them throughout the years to test many of the ideas and formulations found in the earlier editions of this book. Most willingly expressed their views after being asked to read and to use the book. This advice has helped us to rethink and rewrite this edition.

We want to thank postgraduate students and colleagues like Nick Halfpenny, who initiated the basic research involved in updating the tables; Hariz Halilovic, who worked on the second edition; and Janet Jukes, who updated and added to that work for this latest edition. We would also like to thank Pete Varitimidis for the technical and practical support he provided, as well as his extremely positive attitude. Without their work, our task would have been very much more difficult.

Colleagues like Martin Mowbray, Amanda Watkinson, Kerry Montero, Lois Bryson, Helen Marshall and Desmond McDonnell have helped in all sorts of ways, large and small. We also thank friends and family within and outside our own universities. Their support may not have always been directly related to this project, but without it the book would not have come to be, so thanks to both Sandy Cook and Bob Bessant. Thanks also to Dorothy and Bill Watts, who supplied their son with many cups of tea as he typed awayagainat Ocean Grove over the years. Our families have put up with the absences, distractedness and sometimes bad tempers which writing and then rewriting a book entails. To be the child of an academic must often be difficult. Rebekah and Macgregor, your mother is appreciative.

While the contemporary university is no longer as able to support intellectual work as it once did, many of our colleagues have given us material to read, together with helpful feedback and the type of stimulation with which universities have traditionally been credited. Special thanks to teachers like Sharon Andrews, Julia Thornton, Gillian Cavanagh, Cathryn Kriewaldt and Lisa Harris, who are working out what good teaching and learning look like in the social sciences. The School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT also provided a small amount of research funding to help with revising the data.

Elizabeth Weiss from Allen & Unwin has been her usual encouraging, cheerful, persistent and perceptive self. We are also grateful to the production team at Allen & Unwin, and particularly to Lauren Finger and Susan Jarvis for their expertise in editing and publishing this book.

the heedless recklessness or hopeless confusion or complacent repetition of truths which have become trivial and emptyseems to me among the outstanding characteristics of our time. What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

Hannah Arendt (1958: 5)

Many ordinary Australians today seem to be worried, anxious or upset about how they live. If public opinion polls are to be believed, we no longer see the world as a safe place, and we feel the need to defend ourselves from terrorists intent on destroying the Australian way of life or attacking the West. Many Australians appear to accept that they are engaged in a war against terror waged by radical or fundamentalist Muslims that began with the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. Australia joined with the United States and Britain in a Coalition of the Willing, first in an invasion of Afghanistan in 2002 and then an attack on Iraq in March 2004apparently to prevent Iraq using its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction against the West. In August 2005, an AC Nielsen poll showed that 70 per cent of Australians expected a terrorist attack in Australia in the next few years. Foxtel TV news polls in August 2005 suggested that more than 90 per cent of Australians were prepared to relinquish most of their civil liberties to have stronger security laws. In January 2006, one news poll found 87 per cent of those surveyed were fearful about terrorism.

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