Journal of Sociology articles from March 1999

Journal of Sociology archives from March 1999

TELEVISION, AIDS AND RISK: A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS.
March 1, 1999... TELEVISION, AIDS AND RISK: A CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACH TO HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS John Tullock and Deborah Lupton Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1997, 236 pp., $29.95 (paperback). The aim of Television, Aids and Risk is to analyse the...

MEDIA REALITIES: THE NEWS MEDIA AND POWER WITHIN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY.
March 1, 1999... MEDIA REALITIES: THE NEWS MEDIA AND POWER WITHIN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY Ian Marshall and Damien Kingsbury Melbourne, Longman, 1996, vi, 226 pp., $32.96 (paperback). Recently there has been heated debate within Australian media...

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL ERA.
March 1, 1999... AUSTRALIAN POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL ERA Ann Capling, Mark Considine and Michael Crozier Melbourne, Longman, 1998, x, 174 pp., $19.95 (paperback). The central theme of this book is the effect of globalisation on Australian politics....

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION.
March 1, 1999... SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: AN INTRODUCTION Martin Bridgstock, David Burch, John Forge, John Laurent and Ian Lowe Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1998, xii, 276 pp., $29.95 (paperback), $90.00 (hardcover). Natural...

Marias and Marriage: Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality among Italo-Australian Youth in Perth(1)
March 1, 1999... Abstract Using an ethnographic account of weddings and network activities among Italo-Australian youth in Perth, and, in particular, a symbolic analysis of garters and bouquets, this paper explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender and...

Home Owners, Home Renovation and Residential Mobility
March 1, 1999... Abstract Contemporary studies into residential mobility focus on mover households, but pay little attention to households that do not move. Conceptually, it is assumed that households make a voluntary decision to move when their current...

The Death of the Sociology of Deviance?
March 1, 1999... Abstract This article explores the proposition that the sociology of deviance and criminology have entered into a state of crisis. This has important implications as these are important fields of applied social science where most forms of...

Marital Conflict and Men's Leisure: How Women Negotiate Male Power in a Small Mining Community
March 1, 1999... Abstract Against a background of unequal power relationships between men and women, and utilising Lukes' three dimensions of power, this paper examines how the wives of shift workers in a small mining town deal with the conflicts that arise...

Discipline and Labour: Sociology, Class Formation and Money in Australia at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
March 1, 1999... Abstract `Social efficiency' constituted the ` motif of sociology in Australia at the beginning of this century. This essay argues that the sociological promotion of social efficiency can only be accounted for as an intervention into, and...

GANGLAND: CULTURAL ELITES AND THE NEW GENERATIONALISM.(Review)
March 1, 1999... GANGLAND: CULTURAL ELITES AND THE NEW GENERATIONALISM Mark Davis Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1997, xvi, 304 pp., $16. 95 (paperback). This is a provocative book. The central thesis is that a cultural elite, composed mainly of baby...

AMONG THE BARBARIANS: THE DIVIDING OF AUSTRALIA.
March 1, 1999... AMONG THE BARBARIANS: THE DIVIDING OF AUSTRALIA Paul Sheehan Sydney, Random House, 1998, xvi, 338 pp., $19.95 (paperback). Although well-researched and referenced, this book is not, nor does it purport to be, an academic work....

IMMIGRATION AND AUSTRALIA: MYTHS AND REALITIES.
March 1, 1999... Stephen Castles, William Foster, Robyn Iredale and Glen Withers Sydney, Allen and Unwin/Housing Industry Association Ltd, 1998, xvi, 160 pp., $29.95 (paperback). It is not so much that writing and research on immigration can no...

SKILLS TRANSFER: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ACCREDITATION ISSUES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES.
March 1, 1999... Robyn R. Iredale Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press, 1997, x, 172 pp., $29.95 (paperback). It is not so much that writing and research on immigration can no longer escape the terrain of politics--which is palpably obvious in...

CONSTRUCTING FATHERHOOD: DISCOURSES AND EXPERIENCES.
March 1, 1999... Deborah Lupton and Lesley Barclay London, Sage, 1998, vi, 176 pp., $34.95 (paperback). This is a comprehensive work grounded in the empirical findings of a longitudinal study of sixteen Australian heterosexual men's experiences of...

HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE.
March 1, 1999... Gail Meson end Stephen Tomsen (eds) Sydney, The Hawkins Press, 1997, xi, 148 pp., $25.00 (paperback). Violence has always been part of Australia's landscape and homophobic violence is a disproportionate, although inadequately...

FEAR OR FAVOUR: SEXUAL ASSAULT OF YOUNG PRISONERS.
March 1, 1999... David Heilpern Lismore, Southern Cross University Press, 1998, v, 254 pp., $29.95 (paperback). Like much good research, Heilpern's work grew out of personal need. He was asked by a judge to supply actuarial evidence about the...

FACES OF HATE: HATE CRIME IN AUSTRALIA.
March 1, 1999... Chris Cunneen, David Fraser and Stephen Tomsen (eds) Sydney, Hawkins Press, 1997, v, 250 pp., $25.00 (paperback). This is the `first collection of essays dedicated to the issue of hate crime and other acts of violence or harassment...

WOMEN'S ENCOUNTERS WITH VIOLENCE: AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCES.
March 1, 1999... WOMEN'S ENCOUNTERS WITH VIOLENCE: AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCES Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant (eds) London, Sage, 1997, xii, 268 pp., $39.95 (paperback). This well-edited book has three main aims: to broaden understanding about the...

RACE AND RACISM IN AUSTRALIA.
March 1, 1999... RACE AND RACISM IN AUSTRALIA David Hollinsworth Melbourne, Social Science Press, 1998, xviii, 360 pp., $35.00 (paperback). The long-awaited second edition of Race and Racism in Australia comes at a time which Geoffrey Gray and...

RELIGIOUS BUSINESS: ESSAYS ON AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY.
March 1, 1999... RELIGIOUS BUSINESS: ESSAYS ON AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SPIRITUALITY Max Charlesworth (ed.) Oakleigh, Cambridge University Press, 1998, xxvi, 206 pp., $29.95 (paperback). This text is rewarding, k fine collection covering nearly...

CHANGING POLICE CULTURE.(Review)
March 1, 1999... CHANGING POLICE CULTURE Janet B. Chan Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xi, 255 pp., $29.95 (paperback). In 1996 I listened to one of the most eloquent and insightful speeches I'd heard from a police executive....

SEX AND MEDICINE: GENDER, POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
March 1, 1999... SEX AND MEDICINE: GENDER, POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION Rosemary Pringle Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, x, 240 pp., $29.95 (paperback), $90.00 (hardcover). This is a long-awaited book. Rosemary...

SCAPEGOATS FOR A PROFESSION: UNCOVERING PROCEDURAL INJUSTICE.
March 1, 1999... SCAPEGOATS FOR A PROFESSION: UNCOVERING PROCEDURAL INJUSTICE Ann Daniel Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998, vii, 188 pp., $29. 00 (paperback). This book discusses professions as communities. It establishes strong...

AGED CARE: OLD POLICIES, NEW PROBLEMS.
March 1, 1999... AGED CARE: OLD POLICIES, NEW PROBLEMS Diane Gibson Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, xiii, 251 pp., $32.95 (paperback). This book makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the Australian and international...

GREEN OR GONE: HEALTH, ECOLOGY, PLAGUES, GREED AND OUR FUTURE.
March 1, 1999... David Shearman with Gary Sauer-Thompson Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 1997, xiii, 280 pp., $24.95 (paperback). This book is annoying, frustrating and written in a self-righteous (and sexist) manner. It will never be a sociology...

SOCIAL THEORY AND JAPANESE EXPERIENCE: THE DUAL CIVILISATION.
March 1, 1999... SOCIAL THEORY AND JAPANESE EXPERIENCE: THE DUAL CIVILISATION Johann P. Arnason London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1997, xix, 559 pp., $93.95 (hardcover). The concept of modernity occupies a central place in social...

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS: A STUDY OF INDUSTRIALISED MARKET ECONOMIES.
March 1, 1999... INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS' A STUDY OF INDUSTRIALISED MARKET ECONOMIES Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury (eds) Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1998, 442 pp., $35.00 (paperback). Announced as a `fully revised...

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS.
March 1, 1999... RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS Ranjit Kumar Melbourne, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996, xvi, 276 pp., $39.95 (paperback). Anyone teaching a research subject to students enrolled in a professional degree...