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Sociology | Sociology Not Elsewhere Classified | Social Change | Social Change | Media Studies | Family and Household Studies | Social and Cultural Geography | Other Studies in Human Society | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment | Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) | Environmental Sociology | Australian Government And Politics | Public Policy | Political Science not elsewhere classified | Social Policy | Political Science | Policy and Administration | Public Policy | Other Policy And Political Science | Human Geography | Sociology not elsewhere classified | Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Social Theory | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified
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Publications
Young, anchored and free? Examining the dynamics of early housing pathways in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-12-2017
Environmental activists and non-active environmentalists in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2010
It’s only natural: conservatives and climate change in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2017
On Bradman’s bat: Australian sporting heroes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-04-2018
The mother of all effects? Stability and change in Greens party identification in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-09-2019
THE ELECTION THAT FORGOT THE ENVIRONMENT? Issues, EMOs, and the Press in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-09-2014
Abstract: The 2013 Australian federal election c aign has been described as the c aign that “forgot the environment.” We test this claim by comparing the news representation of the environment and environmental movement organizations (EMOs) in Australian federal elections from 1990 to 2013, and consider how coverage of environmental issues and organizations has changed over time. We also analyze the intensity and range of coverage of EMOs and environmental issues during the 2013 election c aign in relation to behind-the-scenes media practices of EMOs, including the circulation of media releases and other c aign material, and levels of activity on social media and organization Web sites. We find that this activity did not translate into high visibility in news media for EMOs. We offer tentative evidence of a link between the dominance of climate change coverage and the poor visibility of EMOs and other environmental issues.
Postmaterialist and economic voting in Australia, 1990-98
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2001
Community Housing in Tasmania: Who Applies for It?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Leadership in the Tasmanian environmental movement: a research note
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1995
DOI: 10.1177/144078339503100307
Abstract: This is an analysis of leadership in the Tasmanian environmental (Green) movement. It is argued that the movement is polycephalous with a complex leadership/influence structure and that movement leaders are able to overcome what Tarrow (1994: 149) terms 'the tyranny of decentralisation' through participation in semi-formal and informal interaction networks. It highlights the crucial importance of leadership in integrating and co-ordinating the activities of the Tasmanian green movement. Networks also form the basis of movement leaders' influence and the framework for leadership recruitment.
Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2007
DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-4446.2007.00146.X
Abstract: Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the role of colonial and post-colonial figures and myths as aspects of Australian national identity. We seek to address this issue by examining how convicts, free settlers, bushrangers and ANZACs are associated with contemporary identity in Australia. We examine evidence from the 2003 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes and find that historical figures such as the ANZACs and post-World War II immigrants comprise important aspects of national identity. A substantial majority of Australians judged ANZACs to be important, countering recent claims of the 'demise of the digger'. Sporting heroes are also at the core of Australian identity. Colonial figures appear to be far less important, although views on national identity vary according to social location. In particular, left-wing, university educated, younger, postmaterialist Australians view convicts and bushrangers as relatively important, indicating the salience of the larrikin in Australian identity.
Home and away from home: the urban-regional dynamics of second home ownership in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-04-2009
Who Are the Shareholders in Australia and What Are Their Ethical Opinions? An Empirical Analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
The Great Divide: Political Candidate and Voter Polarisation over Global Warming in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AJPH.12023
The Impact of Political Context on the Measurement of Postmaterial Values
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2015
Abstract: This research highlights the influence of political context upon the measurement of postmaterial value orientations. Drawing upon a variety of international survey data, Inglehart claims that since World War II a shift has occurred in advanced industrialized nations from material toward postmaterial values. However, cross-sectional data from Australian Election Study surveys collected over more than two decades indicate that atypically for an advanced democracy, Australian value orientations tend toward the materialist pole. Australian Election Study values estimates are also at odds with those from other national social surveys that portray Australia as a far more postmaterialist nation. Regression analysis demonstrates that after controlling for election issues, attitudes toward political leaders, political party identification, and social background, predicted values estimates are substantially more postmaterial than the raw estimates. The findings have international implications as they suggest that measuring values during or soon after election c aigns may affect the measurement of postmaterial value orientations.
Social and political influences on environmentalism in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-09-2012
Abstract: Multivariate analyses of national survey data show that social background has an important influence upon environmental attitudes and behaviour in Australia. The tertiary educated consistently adopt a pro-environmental stance across a range of behaviours, including reducing their consumption, initiating lifestyle changes and voting for the Australian Greens. Men are less likely than women to see global warming as a serious threat and less likely to change their behaviour to protect the environment. However, men are far more likely than women to favour nuclear over coal-fired power, even after controlling for a range of other social background effects. While younger people claim they are willing to pay extra taxes or higher prices to reduce global warming, it is older people who are consuming less and changing their lifestyles because of their environmental concerns. A partisan ide over environmental issues and (in)action on climate change is demonstrated empirically, while conservative political leaders are shown to have an influence upon Green voting.
Beyond the ‘digital divide’
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2006
Abstract: The increasing potential of the Internet to widen access to information and enhance communication capacity has brought opposing arguments about the social consequences of Internet use. Advocates of the ‘digital ide’ thesis argue that the Internet advantages privileged groups while further marginalizing disadvantaged social categories. Critics of the thesis see the expansion of the Internet as enabling and egalitarian, promoting social inclusion and facilitating democratic participation. In order to assess which view is more plausible, we examine the social barriers to Internet use in Australia over a five-year period, using multivariate analyses of national survey data. The notion of a ‘digital ide’ is too simplistic to capture the complexity of social barriers to Internet use. Although the Internet has become more accessible to all social categories, and further technological diffusion should widen this accessibility, household income, age, education and occupational class location remain as key dimensions of differential Internet use.
The social bases of cosmetic surgery in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-05-2013
Abstract: Despite the demand for cosmetic surgery, little is known about the characteristics of recipients beyond the well-known gender ide. Data from a nationally representative Australian survey profiles the social background of cosmetic surgery recipients and those desiring surgery. Aside from strong gender differences, the middle-aged were most likely to desire cosmetic surgery, but older people were most likely to have had it, with body dissatisfaction also associated with desiring and having cosmetic surgery. Social status (education, occupation, income) effects and the fact that those who identify with the Liberal and National parties are more likely than Labor or Greens identifiers to have had surgery suggest it is an aspect of (upper) middle-class lifestyles and sought by those who aspire to them.
What should we know about dementia in the 21st century? A Delphi consensus study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-02-2015
American Outlaws in Australia
Publisher: Redfame Publishing
Date: 24-06-2013
Leadership and the Construction of Environmental Concern
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Expecting the unexpected
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-08-2012
Abstract: Many social theorists argue that institutions such as organized religion, the nuclear family and social traditions more generally, are in a rapid and potentially terminal decline. At the same time, there has been a growing emphasis on the processes of in idualization, the rise of the ‘reflexive self’, de-traditionalization and an emergent view of life as a ‘planning project’ where in iduals determine their future pathways through autonomous decision-making. Some authors, such as Giddens and Beck and Beck-Gernsheim argue that personal life, families and relationships are particularly affected by these changes, while others, such as Gross and Simmons or Smart and Shipman, advise more caution. In this article we interrogate this tension by using first-wave data from a longitudinal study involving over 7000 12–13-year-old high-school students from government, independent and Catholic schools in Queensland, Australia. In this article we provide key baseline findings on students’ expectations of marriage and family life to highlight several key issues that must be addressed by de-institutionalization and reflexivity theorists, and which illustrate the need for a more longitudinal evaluation of their claims.
Environmentalism and Social Differentiation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2004
Abstract: This is a tribute to the late Steve Crook who shared with us the excitement of research on environmentalism. As we predicted, environmental activism in Australia remains socially circumscribed, but its scope, and the scope of environmental concerns, have been widening. Differentiation and proliferation of environmental issues combine with social diffusion and routinization. The proportion of people who see the environment as a salient issue continues to be relatively high, in spite of an increasing competition from new issue concerns, including security and illegal migration. The new ‘white’ environmental issues enter the public arena reflecting widespread (though less urgent) concerns about genetic modification of food-crops and cloning of human tissue – all interpreted as ‘interference with nature’. The ‘white’ environmental issues attract the concern of new social categories of ‘conscience environmentalists’ who are more likely to be women, tend to be older, religious, and less attracted by green organizations. They are also less metropolitan in their location, and not as leftist and postmaterial in their value preferences as their ‘green’ and ‘brown’ predecessors. The formation of the ‘white’ environmental issue cluster and constituency opens the way for new ideological reinterpretations of environmental outlook – and for new political alliances.
When disaster strikes: Under-insurance in Australian households
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-11-2017
Abstract: In undertaking what we believe is the first national-scale study of its kind, we provide methodologically transparent, statistically robust insights into associations and potential unfolding effects of house and contents under-insurance. We identify new dimensions in the complex relationship between householders and insurance, including the salience of interpersonal – and likely institutional – trust. Under-insurance is (re)produced along socio-economic and geographical lines, with those of lower socio-economic status or living in cities more likely to be under-insured. Should a disaster strike, such communities are likely to suffer further disadvantage, especially if governments continue to shift the responsibility for risk onto households. Our findings support the observation that insurance can contribute to increasing socio-economic urban polarisation in light of natural disasters. We conclude by considering how under-insurance may contribute to growing urban social stratification, as well as how it may produce situated ethical and political responses that exceed neoliberal aspirations.
Towards an understanding of loneliness among Australian men: Gender cultures, embodied expression and the social bases of belonging
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-05-2019
Abstract: Recent quantitative investigations consistently single out considerable gender variations in the experience of loneliness in Australia, and in particular how men are especially prone to protracted and serious episodes of loneliness. In 2017 the Director of Lifeline implicated loneliness as a significant factor in suicide among Australian men – currently three times the rate of suicide among women. Compared to women men also struggle to talk about loneliness or seek help from a range of informal and professional sources. We know very little about men’s experience of loneliness or why they are so susceptible to it currently and research is urgently needed in order to design specific interventions for them. To date, psychology has dominated the theoretical research on loneliness but in this article we argue that sociology has a key role to play in broadening out the theoretical terrain of this understanding so as to create culturally informed interventions. Most researchers agree that loneliness occurs when belongingess needs remain unmet, yet it is also acknowledged that such needs are culturally specific and changing. We need to understand how loneliness and gender cultures configure for men how they are located in different ethnic, class and age cohort cultures as well as the changing social/economic/spatial ublic/institutional bases for belonging across Australia. Theoretical enquiry must encompass the broader social structural narratives (Bauman, Giddens and Sennett) and link these to the changing nature of belonging in everyday life – across the public sphere, the domestic sphere, work, in kinship systems, housing and settlement patterns, associational life, in embodied relationships and online.
Social Capital, Interpersonal Trust, and Public Housing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
In science we trust? Public trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections and accepting anthropogenic climate change
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-05-2023
DOI: 10.1177/09636625231165405
Abstract: One barrier to action on climate change is public trust in climate science, and projections made by climate scientists. However, climate science projections are rarely measured in public surveys. We designed survey questions based on two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections regarding global warming and coral reef decline. We gauge Australians’ trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections, and explore how trust in climate science is associated with accepting anthropogenic climate change. A slim majority of Australian adults trust Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections, with trust correlated positively with accepting anthropogenic climate change. While partisan isions are extant in accepting anthropogenic climate change, partisan influences are attenuated substantially after controlling for trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections, as trust in climate science mediates the influence of partisanship on the acceptance of anthropogenic climate change. A minority of those who accept anthropogenic climate change have low trust in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projections, viewing scientists’ computer models as unreliable, or believing climate scientists benefit from overstating the impact of climate change.
The influence of Green parties on postmaterialist values
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2009
DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-4446.2008.01222.X
Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate on value change by advancing a new explanation of the relationship between political parties and generational-based values in advanced industrialized nations. Through multivariate analysis of World Values and other survey data from 29 countries, we show that the relationship between generations and values tends to vary between polities dominated by major parties and those in which many parties achieve electoral success. Green parties enhance the uptake of postmaterialist values and speed the decline of materialist ones, particularly among younger generations, by promoting a political discourse and agenda that contributes to the formative experiences underpinning value change. This research suggests that institutional structures and political parties need to be given far greater prominence in theories of postmaterial value change.
A class act? Social background and body modifications in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-01-2018
Abstract: Are we witnessing the democratisation of body modification in Australia? The prevalence and social background of body modifications is examined using national and state-level survey data from Australia. We find body modifications to be more prevalent among younger, less educated, working-class, non-conservative Australians. Women are far more likely than men are to have body piercings, although in Queensland, young women are more likely than young men to be tattooed. Important life events such as pregnancy, separating from a long-term partner or experiencing violence are also associated with body modifications. While body modifications may be on the rise, social factors still influence the uptake of body modification practices in Australia, suggesting these are socially circumscribed taste-based practices, and should not yet be described as normative.
Wilderness and the Media Politics of Place Branding
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2015
Embodying Britishness: National identity in the United Kingdom
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/NANA.12730
Abstract: Some argue that national identity is constructed from the shared myths and ‘collective memories’ of a nation, where heroes from a ‘golden age’ and legendary figures embody national identity. However, when a national s le of British adults were asked to name the most important Britons, living or dead, they did not hark back to legendary figures, military leaders or sporting heroes, but identified their monarch, political leaders, and to a lesser extent, ‘household heroes’ within their own family. ‘Banal’, quotidian political leaders and Queen Elizabeth II symbolise national identity in Britain, although they sit alongside ‘hot’ signifiers of nationalism personified, such as football hero David Beckham. This research suggests that studies of national identity should not be limited to examining essentialist claims of ethnonationalism, or civic attachments to laws and institutions, but also explore those whom the citizens of a given country identify as embodying their national identity.
Trust and Confidence: A Study of Young Queenslanders
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
Political Knowledge and its Partisan Consequences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Climate Change Knowledge and Political Identity in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2021
DOI: 10.1177/21582440211032673
Abstract: National data from the 2018 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes show that knowledge of climate change is positively associated with the scientific consensus position on anthropogenic climate change. Responses to factual quiz questions that include climate trigger terms such as “greenhouse gas” or reference to increased ocean temperature and acidification are influenced by one’s political party identification, with Liberal and National party identifiers tending to score lower than Labor partisans on climate knowledge scales. Yet, responses to climate-related factual questions sans trigger terms are not influenced by political partisanship. Climate skeptics tend to score lower on climate knowledge scales than those who accept anthropogenic climate change, although skeptics also tend to have inflated confidence in their factual knowledge of climate change.
The Australian constitutional referendum of 1999: evaluating explanations of republican voting
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2003
Dementia knowledge assessment scale: Development and preliminary psychometric properties
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-10-2015
DOI: 10.1111/JGS.13707
Abstract: To develop a reliable and valid dementia knowledge scale to address limitations of existing measures, support knowledge evaluation in erse populations, and inform educational intervention development. A five-stage, systematic scale development process was employed to construct and assess the psychometric properties of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (DKAS). Data for the study were generated in an online environment and during clinical dementia care placements from Australian (n = 1,321) and international respondents (n = 446). Volunteers from a dementia-related massive open online course (n = 1,651), medical students on clinical placement in a residential aged care facility (n = 40), and members of the Australian health workforce (n = 76). Psychometric properties of the DKAS were established using a literature review to assess the veracity of scale items, respondent feedback during pilot testing, a Delphi study with dementia experts, construction and review by an expert panel, evaluation of item difficulty, item-total and interitem correlations. Principal components analysis (PCA) was also performed along with measures of test-retest reliability, internal consistency, construct validity, and concurrent validity. The pilot DKAS was reduced from 40 to 27 items during analysis. PCA identified four distinct and interpretable factors. The revised DKAS displays high levels of test-retest reliability internal consistency and preliminary construct, concurrent, and factorial validity. The 27-item DKAS is reliable and shows preliminary validity for the assessment of knowledge deficiencies and change in those who provide care and treatment for people with dementia.
Postmaterial Values and Age: The Case of Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2003
Scepticism in a changing climate: A cross-national study
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Overstating Value Change: Question Ordering in the Postmaterial Values Index
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-08-2010
DOI: 10.1093/ESR/JCP040
Does Public Knowledge of Climate Change Really Matter in Australia?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-12-2020
National identity and important Australians
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-10-2014
Abstract: Aspects of the national narrative of an advanced industrialised nation are examined in this research. Nationally representative survey data suggest the most important collective figures for Australian identity are the Anzacs, colonial free settlers and post-Second World War immigrants, while sporting heroes have a negligible influence upon what it means to be Australian. Although many Australians have ancestors who were transported, the convict ‘stain’ persists, while indigenous people are also under-represented in Australian identity myths. The most important in idual Australians are not the heroes, saints or sages of an earlier ‘golden era’ nor contemporary sporting heroes, but political leaders, medical doctors and scientists who have (had) actual rather than mythical influence upon the everyday lives of Australians.
Paying for environmental protection in a cross-national perspective
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Leadership and change in the Tasmanian environment movement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Normal medical practice of referring patients for complementary therapies among Australian general practitioners
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2000
Share ownership in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2004
Abstract: The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders’ demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social Science and Australian Electoral Study surveys, shows what shareholders might expect from their companies. Content-analysis of corporate annual reports shows how two companies have reacted here we compare Coles Myer, the subject of recurrent scandal, with Amcor, as a model of corporate responsiveness. We conclude that widespread share ownership is conducive to increasing social tension across a range of dimensions.
The Anzacs
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-01-2013
Abstract: The traditions associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers – the Anzacs – comprise an important element of the Australian narrative. Although Australian and New Zealand soldiers did not officially become ‘Anzacs’ until they joined forces on the Western Front, the Anzacs are associated with the trauma of the Gallipoli c aign. Anzacs ‘live on’ in contemporary Australian culture, celebrated as national heroes by artists, politicians and writers. The Anzacs’ place in Australian history is enshrined through annual Anzac Day commemorations that legitimize idealized, heroic aspects of Australian identity. Drawing upon national survey data we show that Anzacs still have a strong influence on how Australians see themselves. Attitudes toward Anzacs vary only marginally according to social and political background, although they are most salient for middle-aged, less educated, Australian-born citizens, who are proud of their defence forces and exhibit a close attachment to Australia as a nation.
The Environment Movement
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2004
Public support for Antarctic science: lessons from a national survey of Australians
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 26-10-2023
Gendered Voting at the 2010 Federal Election
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2011
Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1163/156853001753639242
Abstract: Questions on "animal rights" in a cross-national survey conducted in 1993 provide an opportunity to compare the applicability to this issue of two theories of the socio-political changes summed up in "postmodernity": Inglehart's (1997) thesis of "postmaterialist values" and Franklin's (1999) synthesis of theories of late modernity. Although Inglehart seems not to have addressed human-nonhuman animal relations, it is reasonable to apply his theory of changing values under conditions of "existential security" to "animal rights." Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis argues that new values emerged within specific groups because of the achievement of material security. Although emphasizing human needs, they shift the agenda toward a series of lifestyle choices that favor extending lifestyle choices, rights, and environmental considerations. Franklin's account of nonhuman animals and modern cultures stresses a generalized "ontological insecurity." Under postmodern conditions, changes to core aspects of social and cultural life are both fragile and fugitive. As neighborhood, community,family,and friendship relations lose their normative and enduring qualities, companion animals increasingly are drawn in to those formerly exclusive human emotional spaces.With a method used by Inglehart and a focus in countries where his postmaterialist effects should be most evident, this study derives and tests different expectations from the theories, then tests them against data from a survey supporting Inglehart's theory. His theory is not well supported. We conclude that its own anthropocentrism limits it and that the allowance for hybrids of nature-culture in Franklin's account offers more promise for a social theory of animal rights in changing times.
Housing tenure, body mass index and health in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-10-2017
Unattached and unconvinced: Australian non‐partisans
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-06-2021
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.116
Abstract: Political party identification is a strong predictor of political behaviour and social attitudes in advanced industrialised democracies. Australian Election Study data show declining identification with major parties over time, and that working‐class Australians, those who do not identify with any class, the secular and the politically uninterested are most likely to be non‐partisans. However, national s les rarely allow for detailed analysis of younger people, given the low numbers of younger people they contain. Longitudinal data from the Social Futures and Life Pathways (“Our Lives”) project enable us to focus upon young Australians aged 24 living in the state of Queensland. The Queensland data show that younger non‐partisans tend to lack post‐secondary education, are on lower incomes, are less interested in politics and, importantly, have non‐aligned parents. Nationally, non‐partisans were less likely than partisans to pay attention to politics during the 2016 Federal Election, but more likely to decide how to vote on the day of the Federal Election and more likely than partisans to vote informal. Younger non‐partisans were also less likely to engage in non‐electoral political actions, such as signing e‐petitions or posting in online forums or social networking sites.
Only in Queensland? Coal mines and voting in the 2019 Australian federal election
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-10-2021
Ned Kelly
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-04-2010
Abstract: Myths associated with outlaws or ‘social bandits’ are important elements of national identity in many countries. Long after his death the outlaw Ned Kelly lives on in Australian culture through various media, ensuring his enduring symbolic importance for national identity. National survey data indicates Kelly’s salience for a majority of Australians, although attitudes regarding his status as hero or villain vary considerably. Younger, left-leaning, working-class Australians and consumers of popular culture view Kelly as important, while tertiary-educated, political conservatives tend to downplay his significance. Perceptions of Kelly’s character also influence attitudes regarding his national significance. The lack of foundation heroes in a nation built not only by free settlers but also by English convicts and Irish rebels goes some way to explaining why a 19th-century outlaw is one of the few historical figures recognized by a majority of Australians.
The influence of political leaders on climate change attitudes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Geographies of trust: Socio-spatial variegations of trust in insurance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Narratives of nationhood: Young Australians’ concepts of nation and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-04-2017
Abstract: In Australia, questions surrounding national identity often feature in public discussions on asylum seekers. Using qualitative interview data collected from 40 participants in an ongoing study of young people in Queensland, we explore the connections between young people’s understandings of Australian national identity and their attitudes towards ‘boat people’. We identify distinct points of interconnection and disjuncture between participants’ notions of being ‘Australian’ and their thoughts on how Australia should respond to asylum seekers. With respect to the asylum seeker debate, we find narratives of Australian nationhood are flexible in interpretation and can serve contrasting and competing functions.
General practitioners’ attitudes toward complementary therapies
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00048-4
Abstract: Attitudes toward complementary therapies were elicited from a postal survey of all identified general practitioners in the state of Tasmania, Australia. Regression analysis of the data indicated that demographic features associated with favourable attitudes were younger age and location in small or single practices. Personal experiences of such therapies or patient endorsement of them were also associated with favourable attitudes. Those who saw the holistic orientation of complementary medicine as an advantage were likely to hold favourable attitudes. Those who saw the cure rate of complementary therapies as problematic and/or had personal knowledge of the harmful effects of such therapies were less likely to have favourable attitudes.
Climate patriots? Concern over climate change and other environmental issues in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-12-2015
Abstract: Echoing the anti-pollution and resource conservation c aigns in the United States in the early-to-mid-twentieth century, some scholars advocate mobilising support for environmental issues by harnessing the notion of environmental patriotism. Taking action to reduce the impact of global warming has also been cast as a patriotic cause. Drawing upon quantitative data from a recent national survey, we examine the link between patriotism and environmental attitudes in Australia, focussing upon climate change. We find that patriotism has a largely neutral association with concern over environmental issues, with the exception of climate change and, to a lesser extent, wildlife preservation. Expressing concern over climate change appears to be unpatriotic for some Australians. Even after controlling for political party identification and other important correlates of environmental issue concerns, patriots are less likely than others to prioritise climate change as their most urgent environmental issue and less likely to believe that climate change is actually occurring.
Rainbow renters: differences in housing tenure and satisfaction between LGBTIQ and non-LGBTIQ Australians
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2023
Home visits: Transnationalism among Australian migrants
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
A New Standard in Dementia Knowledge Measurement: Comparative Validation of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale and the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JGS.14142
Abstract: To compare the psychometric performance of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale (DKAS) and the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale (ADKS) when administered to a large international cohort before and after online dementia education. Comparative psychometric analysis with pre- and posteducation scale responses. The setting for this research encompassed 7,909 in iduals from 124 countries who completed the 9-week Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Volunteer respondents who completed the DKAS and ADKS before (n = 3,649) and after (n = 878) completion of the Understanding Dementia MOOC. Assessment and comparison of the DKAS and ADKS included evaluation of scale development procedures, interscale correlations, response distribution, internal consistency, and construct validity. The DKAS had superior internal consistency, wider response distribution with less ceiling effect, and better discrimination between pre- and posteducation scores and occupational cohorts than the ADKS. The 27-item DKAS is a reliable and preliminarily valid measure of dementia knowledge that is psychometrically and conceptually sound, overcomes limitations of existing instruments, and can be administered to erse cohorts to measure baseline understanding and knowledge change.
Crossing boundaries: Understanding the pro-asylum narratives of young Australians
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2016
Abstract: This paper uses interview data collected from young people in Queensland, Australia, to report the narratives of young Australians on the issue of ‘boat people’ and to explore the ‘accepting’ viewpoint. Consistent with existing literature, the ‘anti-asylum’ interviewees construct symbolic boundaries via language to justify why they believe exclusionary measures should be taken against asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boat. In order to challenge this language of exclusion, our findings suggest the ‘pro-asylum’ participants adopt narratives aligned with the cosmopolitan principles of responsibility, openness and compassion. By doing so, they defend their belief that Australia’s obligations towards the broader global community should take precedence over any challenges ‘boat people’ present to the Australian nation.
Environmental Leaders and Indigenous Engagement in Australia: A Cosmopolitan Endeavour?
Publisher: Medknow
Date: 2016
Your money or your life? Public support for health initiatives during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-05-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.220
Abstract: While many Australians agree with the need for COVID‐19 restrictions and lockdowns, a vocal minority of citizens loudly voice opposition to government restrictions, characterised as impositions on ‘free speech’ and impacting the Australian economy. National data from the 2020/21 Australian Survey of Social and Attitudes and Tasmanian survey data enable an examination of those who support or oppose health initiatives aimed at minimising the impact of the pandemic. The majority of Australians believed government imposed restrictions were ‘about right’, although women were more likely than men to be concerned about the health implications of COVID‐19. Tasmanian data show that controlling for social background, those who prioritise the economy are less likely than those concerned about the health implications of COVID‐19 to wear masks in public, less likely to be tested in case they have to self‐isolate, less likely to check in, and less likely to be vaccinated. Alternatively, higher trust in university research, and trust in scientists as a source of information about COVID‐19 was positively associated with attitudes and behaviour designed to reduce the transmission of COVID‐19.
Do Australians trust scientists? It depends on the ‘science’
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-04-2023
DOI: 10.1002/AJS4.263
Abstract: Trust in science and scientists underlies public support for social and environmental issues, from taking action on climate change to preventing the spread of viruses. Nationally representative Australian survey data show that public trust in university research is higher than that conducted in other institutions. As sources of information, public trust in scientists is considered across potentially polarising and relatively uncontroversial fields of science, with trust varying considerably according to the type of science examined. Public trust is highest in vaccine science and weather forecasting, and lowest for GM crop science, while climate science and forest management fall in between. Social and political background variables are important correlates of trust in science. Younger, tertiary educated, politically progressive Australians are most trusting. Greens party identifiers and environmentalists are more likely than other respondents to trust all types of science examined here—including GM crop science—while institutional trust is positively associated with trust in scientists.
Civic, national and denizen identity in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2000
DOI: 10.1177/144078330003600205
Abstract: Macro-social identities reflect the strength of social attachments (strong vs weak) and the objects-referents of such attachments (society vs nation). Three types of macro-social identities-civic, (ethno-) national and denizen-are distinguished and operationalised in Australia using national survey data (1995 ISSP). The largest proportion (38 per cent) of Australians embrace civic identity, an identity type most widespread among 'baby boomers', the tertiary educated and secular. Those who embrace the national identity form a sizeable minority (30 per cent), and are predominantly older, less educated and religious. Denizen identity characterises a small minority (6 per cent) of Australians who feel weakly attached to the country. The key issues iding the adherents to civic and national identities are immigration and its socioeconomic consequences. Ethno-nationalists embrace neo-conservative rather than extremist attitudes, although their numbers may be declining in the wake of generational replacement, the education revolution and progressive secularisation.
Public Housing and Social Capital in Australia
Publisher: Land and Housing Institute
Date: 30-04-2013
Political divisions over climate change and environmental issues in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2011
The Decline of Political Leadership in Australia?
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2015
Toleration or trust? Investigating the acceptance of ‘boat people’ among young Australians
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2014
The social bases of environmentalism in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-1996
DOI: 10.1177/144078339603200205
Abstract: Interpretations of social and political movements as reflecting social cleavages, especially 'class bases', have formed the backbone of political sociology. Ac cordingly, Western environmental movements are often explained in terms of their alleged class and generational bases. This research assesses social base explanations of support for environmental new politics in Australia. Using nationally representative survey data, it examines the impact of (new) class, status, generation/cohort, and other aspects of social location on environmental concerns and support for environmental groups. Although some social location effects are apparent, they have limited utility for'explaining' environmental new politics in Australia. While the impact of social location variables are generally weak, along with postmaterialist value orientations and consumption of high culture, they have a moderate effect on the propensity to be environmentally active.
Political and Social Divisions over Climate Change among Young Queenslanders
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1068/A46285
Abstract: A large survey of young people in Queensland, Australia, indicates that the majority believe that climate change is occurring, that the planet is warming because of greenhouse gas emissions, and that anthropogenic global warming poses a serious risk to Australia. Parental education has an important influence upon the development of environmental attitudes among young people, with the children of tertiary-educated parents much more likely than others to be concerned about planetary warming. A strong gender ide is also apparent, with young women consistently more concerned about ‘the environment’ than young men are. Political party identification has an important influence upon environmental concerns even among these 16–17-year olds, with young conservative party identifiers far less likely than Greens or Labor identifiers to believe that global warming will pose a serious risk in their lifetime, after controlling for beliefs in human-induced climate change. The party identification findings point to an emerging support base of young Australians for parties that adopt a progressive stance on climate change.
Environmentalism in Australia: elites and the public
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1999
DOI: 10.1177/144078339903500305
Abstract: Political elites (federal candidates) from all parties in Australia exhibit more favourable attitudes toward the environment than voters. Nevertheless, the magnitude of these elite-public differences are declining over time as 'the environment' has become a mainstream political issue. The level of environmental activism among the political elite is on the rise, both within and across party boundaries, indicating an increasing acceptability of 'the environment' among politicians. On the other hand, there is some evidence of a decline in environmental group membership and a shift in the issue priorities of environmental groups, with members now increasingly supportive of 'green green' environmental issues. There is also tentative evidence to suggest that as a mobilising agent for activism 'the environment' is in decline, as environmental issues become 'routinised' and ensconced in mainstream political culture. 1
Loneliness and the cultural, spatial, temporal and generational bases of belonging
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Bushrangers: Ned Kelly and Australian identity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2008
Abstract: Be they highwaymen, bandits or bushrangers, outlaws are mythical figures celebrated across a variety of cultures. Australians' knowledge of colonial outlaws is examined by asking a national s le of adults if they could name four `bushrangers'. A large majority identified Ned Kelly and a substantial proportion Ben Hall, although less than a quarter could name four bushrangers and one in five were unable to name any bushrangers at all. Australian-born, middle-class, middle-aged, politically informed people who live in Queensland or NSW were the most knowledgeable, with the educational achievement findings suggesting that bushrangers occupy the realm of `middle-brow' taste. Ned Kelly is confirmed as Australia's best-known colonial figure and folk hero. Immortalized in Sidney Nolan's paintings and mythologized in various cultural milieux, Kelly has transcended bushranging to symbolize a romantic and rebellious aspect of Australian identity.
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