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12
Sep
2019
Networked crises? Banning, limiting or embracing smartphones in Australian Schools
This Social Sciences Week event is presented by the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and the School of Sociology at the Australian National University...
05
Sep
2019
Book launch: Social Beings, Future Belongings
Social Beings, Future Belongings is a collection of sociological essays that address an increasingly relevant matter: what does belonging look like in the...
08
Aug
2019
The Accord and its antinomies: from consensus to anti-politics?
The Prices and Incomes Accord between the ALP and the ACTU was central to economic restructuring in the Hawke-Keating era, and is generally assumed to have...
05
Aug
2019
Henryk Grossman on Australia: insights and errors in historical sociology
In his principal work, published in 1929, Henryk Grossman identified both the fundamental mechanism involved in capitalism’s tendency to break down, at the...
29
Jul
2019
Ethos and Eidos: For a Social Theory of Morality and Ethics
The presumptive purpose of applied philosophical ethics, and those who work within it, is to provide definitive guides, if not necessarily decisive answers, to...
25
Jul
2019
Role-Taking in Everyday Life: Graduate Fellows Panel
The Role-Taking Project (RTP) is an ongoing initiative for the systematic study of role-taking, or symbolically placing the self in another’s position....
23
Jul
2019
Self-in-Self, Mind-in-Mind, Heart-in-Heart: The Role-Taking Project
Role-taking refers to the process of symbolically placing the self in another’s position. The concept was introduced by George Herbert Mead in 1934 and is now...
