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Introduction to Australian Society

出版	Prentice Hall, 1993
主題	Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN	07248061489780724806140
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3-zxAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This updated and revised text has been given a more applied emphasis for students interested in the human service professions. Chapters, which include overviews, summaries, questions and projects, are grouped under a number of headings. Part 1, What is Australian society? has the following chapters: Examining Australia's social context; Sociological models and their application to Australian society; Key sociological terms: a summary; Doing sociological research: the research process; Demography, urbanisation and ageing in Australian society. Part 2, Social structures in Australian society: distributing life situations and life chances, covers: Social class, the control of resources and corporate ownership trends; Technology and the changing nature and availability of work; Redistributing life's situations and life's chances: issues and compensation measures. Part 3, What is culture? The emergence of a multicultural society, addresses issues relating to ethnicity and multiculturalism, and has chapters on: Socialisation of Australian society; The family as a primary socialising institution (this chapter is individually indexed); Education as a socialiser and cultural reproducer; Religion: a social institution or a guide to life; Economy and government: control and compensation; Leisure/ recreation: the emerging social institution; The mass media as legitimators of order. Part 4 on Social issues, social order and social change, includes data on law and crime, health and conservation. A conclusion is presented in Part 5.