AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: CLASS, GENDER, RACE AND SEXUALITY 12.5 1st year Verity Burgmann. First semester Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week Students who complete this subject should be able to:
  • understand the major theoretical approaches to the study of inequality;
  • express familiarity with the empirical details of the extent and breadth of inequality in Australian society;
  • think critically about the nature and significance of social divisions in the study of political science.
The major dimensions of inequality in Australian society, notably class, gender, race or ethnicity, sexuality and age; the principal locations of inequality, such as the family, the workplace, the labour market; how inequality is experienced in employment, local communities, systems of welfare, the education system, health care and housing; and the role of various agencies - political, social and cultural - in maintaining inequality. One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words. J M Najman and J S Western A Sociology of Australian Society, 2nd ed M Sargent The New Sociology for Australians F Stilwell Economic Inequality: Who Gets What in Australia?. AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: CLASS, GENDER, RACE AND SEXUALITY 12.5 Verity Burgmann. First semester. Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week Students who complete this subject should be able to:
  • understand the major theoretical approaches to the study of inequality;
  • express familiarity with the empirical details of the extent and breadth of inequality in Australian society;
  • think critically about the nature and significance of social divisions in the study of political science.
The major dimensions of inequality in Australian society, notably class, gender, race or ethnicity, sexuality and age; the principal locations of inequality, such as the family, the workplace, the labour market; how inequality is experienced in employment, local communities, systems of welfare, the education system, health care and housing; and the role of various agencies - political, social and cultural - in maintaining inequality. One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words. J M Najman and J S Western A Sociology of Australian Society (2nd ed) M Sargent The New Sociology for Australians. F Stilwell Economic Inequality: Who Gets What in Australia?.