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Social Discipline and State Formation: Weber and Oestreich on the historical sociology of subjectivity
Published 1990-05-01The concept of discipline has come to be associated with the work of Michel Foucault, but Max Weber and Gerhard Oestreich also made extensive use of it, and this paper explores their contribution to our understanding of ...Open AccessArticle -
State intervention, welfare and the social construction of girlhood in Australian history
Published 1992-12-13This paper provides a historical analysis of the role that state intervention into family life has played in the social construction of Australian `girlhood'. It outlines the discourses and practices surrounding child ...Open AccessConference paper -
Medical Dominance in the Australian Health System: The Case of the Bionic Ear
Published 1994-01-01The material for this paper is based on approximately 60 face-to-face interviews with specialist doctors, consumers, administrators, policy makers, various officials, researchers and company representatives. It is a case ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding Ulcers: Medical Knowledge, Social Constructionism, and Helicobacter Pylori
Published 1996-01-01The study of historical change in the content of medical knowledge in regard to specific illnesses or diseases provides sociologists with the opportunity to investigate both social processes and social theory. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
What Does it Mean to be Civilised? Norbert Elias on the Germans and Modern Barbarism
Published 1998-01-01Review of Norbert Elias, The Germans.Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Citizenship and Democracy in Germany: implications for understanding globalization
Published 2000-01-01This chapter outlines the particular character of the development of the German nation and state, of German citizenship and democracy, to chart the problems and issues which this history has produced, and to highlight the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
From miscegenation to assimilation: rationalities of child removal in Australian colonial administration
Published 2000-12-01This paper presents the results of an ARC Small Grant titled “The Bringing them Home ‘Stolen Generations’ Report: a sociological analysis of the evidence”. It examines the governmental rationalities which informed policies ...Open AccessConference paper -
Beyond the ‘Parsonian Problem of Order’: Elias, Habit and Contemporary Sociology or Hobbes was Right
Published 2003-06-30The way in which Simmel answered the question ‘How is society possible?’ provided a variety of important and fruitful foundations for subsequent sociological theory and research. However, the reformulation of the sociological ...Open AccessConference paper -
Assimilation and liberal government1
Published 2005-01-01This paper discusses the place of concepts and practices of assimilation within liberal strategies of government generally, as the foundation for understanding the ways in which they were mobilised in relation to Indigenous ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Occidental self-understanding and the Elias-Duerr dispute: ‘thick’ versus ‘thin’ conceptions of human subjectivity and civilization
Published 2005-01-01It has become central to Occidental self-understanding to see Western European identities and forms of social relations as historically unique. This is true both in everyday, commonsense understandings of what it means to ...Open AccessArticle -
A Post-Colonial Comment on Collins
Published 2006-05-05This paper responds to Randall Collins' critique of R.W. Connell's 1997 paper, 'Why is classical theory classical' arguing that the the history of the discipline should in fact be redrawn.Open AccessWorking Paper -
On The Differences Between The Sciences: Comparing Knowledge(s) of Health and Disease in the 19th Century
Published 2006-07-01This paper begins with Max Weber’s proposition that the difference between the ‘sciences’ (defined in the broadest sense) is one of values, context and theoretical orientation rather than subject matter. This proposition ...Open AccessConference paper -
Oöcyte markets: global tissue economies and women’s reproductive work in embryonic stem cell research
Published 2006-09-05Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) research, otherwise known as therapeutic cloning, requires large numbers of research oöcytes, placing pressure on an already limited supply. In the UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and ...Open AccessArticle -
Ordinary People
Published 2006-10-31Judith Brett talking about the class dimensions of her Ordinary People researchOpen AccessPresentation -
Images of Stoicsm and Courage in The Wife’s Lament
Published 2007-01-01There is a quiet, dignified portrayal of stoicism in the Wife’s Lament. The Wife’s Lament uses the Germanic Comitatus heroic ethic and metaphorises it through the exile of the wife. The theme of exile is a common theme ...Open AccessArticle -
Images of the Germanic Comitatus
Published 2007-01-01The heroic ethic of the Germanic Comitatus was central to the lives of the Anglo-Saxons. Dignity and power was represented by bands of brave young warriors, who paid tribute to their Chieftain with gifts with bravery in ...Open AccessArticle -
Trade globalization, economic development, and the income stratification process
Published 2007-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Social equity and population health: Cross-national evidence and policy implications
Published 2008-01-01Open AccessConference paper -
Academic Language, Power and the Impact of Western Knowledge Production on Indigenous Student Learning
Published 2008-01-01This paper explores the prescriptive, distancing and separating qualities that exist in western systems of knowledge production. It examines scientific language and how discrimination takes place in the university setting ...Open AccessArticle