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Sociology

Scope: Sociology is the study of the processes of social organisation and change and their consequences in human life. Sociologists look to such things as social class, gender, ethnicity, power and culture to understand and explain the differences in how people, live, think and feel. The media and cultural trends such as consumerism, individualism, feminism, post-modernism, and corporatism are studied. Undergraduate subjects are taught at Clayton, Caulfield and Gippsland campuses and honours and postgraduate degrees are offered at Clayton campus.

Related subject pages: Anthropology, Politics, Southeast Asia, Women's and gender studies

Contact librarians: Susan Little (Matheson Library), Janet McGarry (Caulfield Library), Jane Purton (Gippsland Library).

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