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Underemployment and Job Quality Among Young Australians: A Gendered Analysis Using the HILDA Survey (2009–2022)

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on a Critical Sociology of Networks

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2016
Nowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes “networks” and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination.
Charalambos Tsekeris
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The sociological craft through the lens of theatre

Sociologisk Forskning, 2022
Since its inception as an academic discipline in the 19th century, sociology has carried an internal tension between the “scientific” and the “hermeneutic” orientations.
Helena Holgersson
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Spontaneous order and relational sociology:from the Scottish Enlightenment to human figurations [PDF]

, 2017
If viewed from a long-term and large-scale perspective, human interdependencies today can be seen as approaching species integration on a worldwide level.
Law, Alex
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Individualization and the aporias of modernity [PDF]

, 2014
Ulrich Beck’s musings on individualization have been described as a theory that provides a convincing explanation of what is happening in society, but has it seemed convincing because of its superior explanatory power or because it says what those who ...
Argyrou, Vassos
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

Problem gambling: a suitable case for social work? [PDF]

, 2013
Problem gambling attracts little attention from health and social care agencies in the UK. Prevalence surveys suggest that 0.6% of the population are problem gamblers and it is suggested that for each of these individuals, 10–17 other people ...
Alexander B., Bellringer P., Bickley P., Brenner R., Chinn C., Cree V., Crisp B., Daddow R., Derevensky J., Flavin M., Gambling Commission, Gaudia R., Golightley M., Goodman R., Gould N., Griffiths M. D., Griffiths M. D., Griffiths M. D., Griffiths M. D., Jim Rogers, Layard R., May Chahal C., Nielsen Media Research, Orford J., Orford J., O’Keeffe M., Petry N., Productivity Commission, Reith G., Reith G., Reith G., Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, Rigbye J., Rowntree B., Shaffer H. J., Sullivan S., Tew J., Victorian Casino and Gambling Authority (VCGA), Volberg R., Walker M., Wardle H., Wright Mills C., Zarin D. A.   +42 more
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