Ten years since the global financial crisis: Social movements, labour & the crisis last time
Concurrently in Perth – Melbourne – Sydney
Friday 1st December, 2017
Workshop for TASA members hosted jointly by TASA ‘Sociology of Economic Life’ and ‘Work, [...]
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In his classic work Europe and the People Without History, Eric Wolf launched a broadside against the methodological nationalism of sociology. The discipline, he argued, was wedded to the idea that “social relations take place within the charmed circle of the single nation-state”. [...]
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From Economic Rationalism to Global Neoliberalism?
A Workshop for Early-Career and Postgraduate Researchers
RMIT, Melbourne, Fri 2nd December, 2016
Hosted by The Australian Sociological Association’s [...]
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In 1959, C. Wright Mills coined the term ‘sociological imagination’ to illustrate how sociologists can provide unique insight via a broad analysis of the social. Via this critical process, we can remove ourselves from everyday life, seeing the social in the personal. The 2015 TASA (The [...]
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Economic sociology is synonymous with the study of political economy. With roots in institutional economics, Marxian political economy and urban studies, as well as classical contributions from Max Weber, Émile Durkheim and Karl Polanyi, the field fits well with political economy’s [...]
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