ORCID Profile
0000-0002-9877-6645
Current Organisation
University of Sydney
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Sociology | Social Theory | Social Change | Sociology not elsewhere classified | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Social Structure and Health | Education and Training Systems Policies and Development |
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1995
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211006177
Abstract: There has been a renewal of interest in the writing of national histories of sociology, with dozens of histories recently published in both the global North and South. Despite this, there has been a dearth of discussion about the methods and methodologies appropriate to such a task. Indeed, few histories of sociology, and fewer still national histories of sociology, explicitly address methodology. In this study, we review the literature on histories of sociology from a variety of countries, focusing on how the authors have approached the writing of history, and their implicit use of methods and methodologies. We suggest the use of a content analysis as an additional, though perhaps unusual, method of historiography, and apply this in the case of an Australian history of sociology. Our content analysis reveals both similarities and differences in the Australian approach, indicating the impact of settler-colonialism on Australian sociology and its historiography.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-1995
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1071/AHV37N2_BR
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-06-2014
Abstract: This article reports on a citation-context analysis of journal articles from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Examining publications from the sociology of health and medicine, the study draws a number of conclusions about the state of sociology, inter-country relationships between knowledge workers, and national systems of sociological knowledge production. It finds that core–periphery relations define significant features of sociological work, impacting on citation patterns, inter-country collaboration and the selection of reference materials. Core–periphery relations are also found to influence the sociological production of knowledge across the Australian university sector.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2010
Abstract: Differing accounts are conventionally given of the origins of medical sociology and its parent discipline of sociology. These distinct ‘histories’ are justified on the basis that the sociological founders were uninterested in medicine, mortality and disease. This article challenges these ‘constructions’ of the past, proposing the theorization of health not as a ‘late development of sociology’ but an integral part of its formation. Drawing on a selection of key sociological texts, it is argued that evidence of the founders’ sustained interest in the infirmities of the in idual, of mortality, and in medicine, have been expunged from the historical record through processes of ‘canonization’ and ‘medicalization’.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-07-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2017.06.004
Abstract: Choice is an imperative for patients in the Australian healthcare system. The complexity of this healthcare 'maze', however, means that successfully navigating and making choices depends not only on the decisions of patients, but also other key players in the healthcare sector. Utilising Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus and field, we analyse the role of gatekeepers (i.e., those who control access to resources, services and knowledge) in shaping patients' experiences of healthcare, and producing opportunities to enable or constrain their choices. Indepth interviews were conducted with 41 gatekeepers (GPs, specialists, nurses, hospital administrators and policymakers), exploring how they acquire and use knowledge within the healthcare system. Our findings reveal a hierarchy of knowledges and power within the healthcare field which determines the forms of knowledge that are legitimate and can operate as capital within this complex and dynamic arena. As a consequence, forms of knowledge which can operate as capital, are unequally distributed and strategically controlled, ensuring democratic 'reform' remains difficult and 'choices' limited to those beneficial to private medicine.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-1997
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-12-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/HEX.13134
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2000
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-09-2021
DOI: 10.1177/14407833211041402
Abstract: Debates about the state of Australian sociology have raged for as long as sociology has existed in Australia. Concerns about the discipline’s future may be inevitable for a critical, reflexive discipline, but to those entering the discipline, it is neither instructive nor productive to be subjected to lingering disciplinary anxieties. After more than fifty years, it is time to take stock of the differing visions of sociology, and examine the arguments about the health, or otherwise, of Australian sociology. To advance this debate, we consider the signs and benchmarks of a ‘successful’ sociology as expressed in The Australian Sociological Association magazine, NEXUS, and key writings from Australian sociologists. We suggest that much of the disagreement over the status of sociology derives from the way ‘disciplines’ and ‘success’ are defined. Regarding sociology to be an heterogeneous, multi-modal, social institution and practice, we propose a way forward in our efforts to represent ourselves.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-07-2015
Abstract: The promotion of choice is a common theme in both policy discourses and commercial marketing claims about healthcare. However, within the multiple potential pathways of the healthcare ‘maze’, how do healthcare ‘consumers’ or patients understand and experience choice? What is meant by ‘choice’ in the policy context, and, importantly from a sociological perspective, how are such choices socially produced and structured? In this theoretical article, the authors consider the interplay of Bourdieu’s three key, interlinked concepts – capital, habitus and field – in the structuring of healthcare choice. These are offered as an alternative to rational choice theory, where ‘choice’ is regarded uncritically as a fundamental ‘good’ and able to provide a solution to the problems of the healthcare system. The authors argue that sociological analyses of healthcare choice must take greater account of the ‘field’ in which choices are made in order to better explain the structuring of choice.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-1998
DOI: 10.2190/A9U4-JXGX-87Y7-5B34
Abstract: Over the past decade, the Australian hospital sector has undergone a massive economic and administrative reorganization with ramifications for both the private and the public sectors. Changes such as privatization, deregulation, and the entry of foreign capital into the hospital sector are occurring in the hospital systems of many countries, including Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. These developments are radically transforming the hospital sector, altering established relationships between the state, the medical profession, the consumer, and the corporate investor, and raising important questions about the future of hospital services in regard to equity, accessibility, and quality.
Start Date: 2019
End Date: 12-2021
Amount: $601,647.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2013
End Date: 09-2016
Amount: $268,216.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2013
End Date: 06-2017
Amount: $596,822.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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