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Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
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The department offers programs at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels in three disciplinary areas: anthropology, sociology and comparative sociology. The department has a number of particular academic strengths: social theory; comparative and historical studies; the analysis of western societies and Australia in particular; research methods; Asia; social change and `development'; women, gender studies and feminism; social policy; cultural studies.
At the graduate level, the department provides supervision for research degrees at masters and PhD levels in a wide range of areas, drawing on the specialist interests and expertise of twenty-nine staff across the campuses of Clayton, Caulfield and Peninsula; postgraduate supervision is also available on the Gippsland campus.
The department also has several masters programs by coursework or coursework and thesis. Students can either enrol in a general masters in anthropology and sociology and then choose between a variety of alternative `streams' or areas of study available within this program or enrol in a specialised masters in applied social research. Depending on the level of entry, the courses take one year or two years full-time (or the part-time equivalents).
Details of PhD, masters (research) and the coursework degree programs, the general MA first, followed by the MA applied social research, are given below.
ROBERT BIRRELL immigration policy and the implications; australian society from an historical and developmental perspective.
GARY BOUMA sociology of religion; sociology of the family; social psychology; sociology of occupations and professions.
CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN homelessness; social class; the petty bourgeoisie; sociology and public policy.
BERNARD DALY sociology of health and illness; sociology of nursing.
BARRY ELLEM prison issues; technological change; environmental issues; the future of work; qualitative research techniques.
JOANNE FINKELSTEIN cultural studies; sociology of fashion and consumer conduct; sociology of self; sociology of health and illness.
JOY FISHER sociology of education; feminist theory; leisure in capitalist society.
WILLIAM FODDY privacy; obscenity; self processes; cluster housing; survey methodology.
PENNY GRAHAM the anthropology of Southeast Asia; religion and religious conversion; socio-economic change and regional migration; ethnicity and the state; orality and literacy.
LUCY HEALEY gender and modernity in Malaysia; women and Islam; race and sexual politics; social theory; feminism cross-culturally.
PETER HILLER analysis of data on child abuse; methodology/philosophy of social science; ideology; class/social stratification; computers in sociology.
JANET HOSKINS cultural perceptions of time and history; gender and exchange; colonialism and indigenous violence; Indonesia; ethnographic writing and film-making.
NEVILLE KNIGHT young people and their groups, in leadership; sociology of religion.
CATHERINE LEWIS mass media; social history; education; gender, gender studies, family.
CHRIS LLOYD sexuality, gender and gender identity; feminist approaches to research; feminist theory; unconscious processes in social life.
IAN MARSHALL mass media `imaging' of reality; organisational responses to technological change; employee participation and industrial democracy in Australian commerce and industry; the composition and evolution of `elite' groupings in Melbourne society.
ANTHONY MCMAHON men and gender relations; feminist theory; marriage and family; contemporary social theory; sociology of emotions.
DON MILLER religion and social inequality in India and Bali; social theory; socio-cultural construction of `disabilities,' sign language and deaf culture.
ANDREW MILNER contemporary social theory; literary and cultural theory; sociology of literature; Milton, Orwell and political writing; literary radicalism in Australia.
DAWN RYAN urban anthropology; Melanesian society; anthropology of religion; population mobility in the pacific; socio-religious movements in Melanesia; theory and practice in ethnographic fieldwork.
GEORGE SILBERBAUER community responses to disaster; disaster management; socio-ecology of Westernport Catchment; application of systems theory to social analysis.
MICHAEL STEVENSON comparative studies of social and cultural transformations; social movements and their political and cultural consequences; third world studies; political economy; the history of social theory.
MONI STORZ stress and mental health and illness; women's studies; Asia's business cultures; crosscultural research methodologies and intercultural communications skills; accelerated learning methodology.
ULLA SVENSSON gender relations in the family; women, the welfare state and social policies; use of official statistics.
JAN VAN BOMMEL feminist theory; sexual division of labour; women, female subjectivity and madness.
BRUCE WEARNE history of the social sciences; religion and theoretical thought; American sociological thought.
NAOMI ROSH white social construction of identity; sociology of children and childhood; testimony memory and social knowledge; holocaust.
ROBERT WOLFGRAMM charisma; multiculturalism; the `new physics'; tradition and tribalism in post-coup Fiji; postwar popular music.
For entry to MA by research (whether by thesis alone or by coursework and thesis), applicants should have an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in the relevant discipline (or equivalent qualification).
For entry to MA by coursework at Part II level, applicants should have an honours degree with a grade of H2B or better in the relevant discipline (or equivalent qualification).
For entry to MA by coursework at Part I level applicants should have either an honours degree with a grade of at least H3 in the relevant discipline or a pass degree at credit level or above.
Attendance at a fortnightly departmental research seminar is required of all postgraduate research students. Alternatively, students may choose to take the masters by thesis and coursework. Details are given below.
The masters is divided into two parts. Students may apply for entry into Part I or II, depending on their qualifications. Part I consists of four coursework subjects. Part II takes the form of either four coursework subjects or two coursework subjects and a thesis of 24-30,000 words. Each part is one year full-time or two years part-time.
Within this masters there are four `streams' or areas of study, each with a range of one-semester seminar subjects, from which students make their choice. Students may also select subjects from across the `streams'. Students are advised to discuss their choice of subjects with the coordinators of the various streams or other academic staff in the department. The four `streams' are:
+ Anthropology
+ Gender and feminism
+ Social theory and comparative sociology
+ Sociology and public policy
+ ASM4400 Ethics, theory and method in anthropological research
+ ASM4430 The third world
+ ASM4440 Asia and the West
+ ASM4500 The social construction of disabilities
+ ASM4630 Feminism cross-culturally
+ ASM4800 Special ASM subject (other approved fourth-year level subjects)
+ ASM5010 On culture and inequality: theorising cultural difference
+ ASM5060 Application of computer techniques
+ ASM5080 The theory and practice of research
+ ASM5300 Theorising culture
+ ASM5800 Special ASM subject (other approved fifth-year level subjects)
+ ASM4070 Bodily representations
+ ASM4300 Alternatives to straight research
+ ASM4330 Sociology of the family
+ ASM4370 Women, gender and society
+ ASM4380 Women, psychiatry and madness
+ ASM4390 Women and social control
+ ASM4630 Feminism cross-culturally
+ ASM4651 The unconscious in social life: psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives
+ ASM4710 Sexed media, media-ted sex
+ ASM5110 Sexual/social theory and feminist research: critical exchanges A
+ ASM5120 Sexual/social theory and feminist research: critical exchanges B
+ ASM5620 Power, policy, patriarchy and the state
+ ASM5800 Special ASM subject (other approved fifth-year level subjects)
+ WSM5010 Feminist theory
+ WSM5020 Feminist research
+ ASM4070 Bodily representations
+ ASM4110 Cultural studies: the consumer society
+ ASM4200 Rethinking human studies: after postmodernity
+ +ASM4430 The third world
+ ASM4440 Asia and the West
+ ASM4500 The social construction of disabilities
+ ASM4640 Structuralisms and poststructuralisms
+ ASM4651 The unconscious in social life: psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives
+ ASM4800 Special ASM subject (other approved fourth-year level subjects)
+ PLM4140 Grand theories of politics
+ ASM5010 On culture and inequality: theorising cultural difference
+ ASM5030 Culture and the modern self
+ ASM5070 The development of American sociological theory
+ ASM5080 The theory and practice of research
+ ASM5250 Marxist critical theory
+ ASM5300 Theorising culture
+ ASM5800 Special ASM subject (other approved fifth-year level subjects)
+ ASM4010 Qualitative research strategies
+ ASM4030 Survey research
+ ASM4040 Theoretical and methodological issues in applied social research
+ ASM4310 Population and migration
+ ASM4320 The research process
+ ASM4330 Sociology of the family
+ ASM4340 Sociology of religion
+ ASM4390 Women and social control
+ ASM4500 The social construction of disabilities
+ ASM4620 Power, policy, patriarchy and the state
+ ASM4800 Special ASM subject (other approved fourth-year level subjects)
+ ASM5020 Secondary analysis in social research
+ ASM5050 Applied statistics
+ ASM5060 Application of computer techniques
+ ASM5130 Issues in public policy
+ ASM5800 Special ASM subject (other approved fifth-year level subjects)
This course, which has been running successfully for a number of years, aims to provide students with a broad range of research skills and to equip them for careers in applied social research. The course takes two years full-time or four years part-time, irrespective of the degree qualifications of entrants. All students take six coursework subjects and do a group research project.
+ SYM4010 Qualitative research strategies
+ SYM4020 Secondary analysis in social research
+ SYM4030 Survey research
+ SYM4040 Theoretical and methodological issues in applied social research
+ SYM5050 Applied statistics
+ SYM5060 Application of computer techniques
+ SYM5070 MA in applied social research project