CFP: Austrialian Sociological Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2010
6-9 December 2010
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia

SOCIAL CAUSES, PRIVATE LIVES
The 2010 TASA conference is dedicated to the reassertion of sociology as an engaged, critical discipline. Individual responsibility has become the dominant economic and political program, and for many an internalised fact of life. Sociology needs to vigorously reassert its core tasks: to contextualise private lives in the social conditions and cultural temper of the times; and so to confidently take a critical position vis-à-vis economic, political and cultural processes in its own social environment and various domains.

Submissions are invited around the following themes, groups and keywords:
* Applied Sociology
* Crime and Governance
* Critical Disability Studies
* Culture
* Sociology of Economic Life
* Environment and Society
* Families, relationships and gender
* Health
* Indigenous
* Media
* Migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
* Mobilities
* Science, technology and knowledge
* Teaching Sociology
* Work and Labour Studies
* Social Stratification
* Sociology of Youth
* Sociology of Education

Authors can submit for the following presentation types:
* Refereed Papers
* General/WIP Papers
* Conference Workshops
* Poster Presentation

For more information visit the Conference website:
http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/tasa-conference/index.htm

For enquiries contact:
Dr Selvaraj Velayutham (Raj)
Conference Convenor
Department of Sociology
Macquarie University
Tel: 02-9850 4426
Email: Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au