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166-103 Australian Society: Class, Gender, Race and Sexuality

Year 1 Politics.

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

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.

Content:

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.

Assessment:

One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words.

Prescribed texts:

• 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?.

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166-103 Australian Society: Class, Gender, Race and Sexuality

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

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.

Content:

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.

Assessment:

One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words.

Prescribed texts:

• 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?.

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