Knowledge-making in Australian society: sociology and its social impact

该项目旨在揭示几代澳大利亚人如何以有组织的方式寻求社会意义。该项目旨在通过对主要学者的采访，档案和引文数据，以确定社会学知识如何被后殖民主义，多元文化主义和全球资本主义的背景所塑造，以及这些思想在多大程度上对政策，立法和公共辩论做出了贡献并受到影响。预期成果包括关于学科作用的新证据，并有助于这一新兴领域的国际研究工作。

This project aims to reveal how Australians, over several generations, have sought to make sense of society in an organised way. The project intends to draw from interviews with key scholars, archival and citation data to ascertain how sociological knowledge has been shaped by a context of post-colonialism, multiculturalism and global capitalism as well as the extent to which these ideas have contributed to, and been influenced by, policy, legislation and public debate. Expected outcomes include new evidence about the role of disciplines and contribute to the international research effort in this emerging field.