The Martin Presence
Jean Martin and the Making of Social Sciences in Australia
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-74223-216-4 (ISBN)
Description
Jean Martin was a pioneer of sociology, inventing a version of the discipline that was uniquely suited to Australia in the post-war period.
Jean Isobel Martin (1923-79) made herself a sociologist before the discipline was established in Australia.
Regarded as the founding mother of Australian sociology, her writing, teaching and policy helped shape Australia in the period of economic growth and social development that followed World War II. The Martin Presence examines her work across the prevailing concerns of the time - the needs of country towns, the factory work floor, families and urban structure, poverty and inequality, education and immigration - and explores her farreaching influence on the study of social sciences in Australia.
Jean Isobel Martin (1923-79) made herself a sociologist before the discipline was established in Australia.
Regarded as the founding mother of Australian sociology, her writing, teaching and policy helped shape Australia in the period of economic growth and social development that followed World War II. The Martin Presence examines her work across the prevailing concerns of the time - the needs of country towns, the factory work floor, families and urban structure, poverty and inequality, education and immigration - and explores her farreaching influence on the study of social sciences in Australia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-74223-216-4 (9781742232164)
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Persons
Peter Beilharz is director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University and a fellow in Cultural Sociology at Yale. Trevor Hogan is deputy director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, and works in social theory and urban studies. Sheila Shaver is honorary professor at the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.