Australian Sociology: A Changing Society, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (September 5, 2025) © 2025

  • David Holmes
  • Kate Hughes Victoria University
  • Roberta Julian University of Tasmania
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A concise and current introduction to the field of Sociology

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Australian Sociology provides an analysis of Australian society. In doing so, it draws on a diverse range of perspectives as well as a myriad of topics that go to issues at the core of Australian social life. Our ever-changing society presents continuing challenges to sociological analysis. This edition of Australian Sociology sets out to document these many changes, while retaining an organised analysis required of an introductory overview of Australian society.

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Table of contents

  • 1. What is Sociology?
  • 2. Class
  • 3. Aboriginality and Australia's Indigenous Peoples
  • 4. The Uses of Gender
  • 5. Ethnicity and Immigration: Challenging the National Imaginary?
  • 6. The Knowledge Generation
  • 7. Illness, Health and the Pursuit of Wellbeing
  • 8. Personal Lives
  • 9. Deviance or Difference?
  • 10. The Working Environment
  • 11. Power and the State
  • 12. Religion and Spirituality
  • 13. Globalisation and the City
  • 14. From Mass Media to Social Media
  • 15. Changing the Climate: Modernity at its Limits
  • 16. Sociological Theory
  • 17. How to Carry out a Simple Research Project (available online)

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