In the month of August, people who are homeless occupied one of Sydney’s most famous sites, Martin Square, to protest lack of secure, affordable housing.
Continue reading “‘As Long as Poverty, Injustice and Gross Inequality Persist in Our World’”I interviewed Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, sociologist and Aboriginal woman belonging to the Bundjalung and Worimi peoples of coastal New South Wales, who led the “Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact” workshop. Continue reading Decolonising Theory, Methods, and Practice
I’ve been thinking a bit about social marketing lately because I’ve being managing communications and media for research organisations and not for profits for many years. In general, marketing in the social sciences could be enhanced, especially in my field of sociology.
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Social science shows how space affects people’s enjoyment in public places. One study of the Tate Museum used behavioural observation methods and computer simulations to study visitors.
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Last week I was part of a panel on Race and Dating, at 107 Projects in Sydney.
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In many Western societies, we go about our daily routine, we generally think about our life trajectory following a fairly linear path. So what happens if our work lives are disrupted?
Continue reading “Rethinking the Life Course”
Public funding for libraries tends to be decreasing in many parts of the world. The idea that libraries and librarians are redundant because we can search for information online is false.
Continue reading “In Support of the Public Library”
Much like the challenges facing educators looking to transform education in a way that is more meaningful to Indigenous students, Australian sociology has many issues of colonialism to address.
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This coming Tuesday 7 February 2017, Australia is set to introduce a lifetime ban on refugees who arrive by boat.
Continue reading “Stop Australia’s Lifetime Ban of Refugees”
The concept of social change involves a transition in society from one state to another, within a specific point in time. The level of change, and whether this change has a profound effect on a society, depends on a complex interplay of actors, actions and organisation.
Continue reading “How Does Social Change Happen?”
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