SWSP1053 Introduction to Contemporary Society

This library Pathfinder is your guide to help locate resources for the following units, which are based on sociological theory. 

The Search Assistant will guide you through the process of building a search, which you can copy and paste into MultiSearch or any of the library databases, to retrieve better results.

Use the Advanced Search pages to find information about specific topics.

This unit provides an introduction to the social and human sciences, their historical foundations and their role in understanding and working in contemporary society.

Some topics covered in these units include:  

• gender
• class
• diversity
• politico-economic systems
• social institutions
• culture
• colonisation
• globalisation
• neoliberalism and
• (post)modernity.

Students will also explore postmodern concepts of:

• human agency
• lived experience
• identity
• knowledge
• self and
• subjectivity.

This library pathfinder is your guide to help locate resources for these units. 

A good place to start if you need definitions, history, trends or overviews of a topic, is to search the set of GALE Encyclopedias. 

To help you get started, here are some searches you can try out and edit by using the facets on the left hand side of Multisearch results page.

These live searches are limited to: 

• Type of resource = books (print books and ebooks)
• Date range = 2010 onwards

After clicking on the links below, you can edit the type of resource you want, the date range and add terms to make your search more specific.

• Sociology 
• Gender
• Class 
• Diversity
• Socialisation (note that when searching databases, use Australian and USA spelling.  E.G.  Socialisation OR socialization)
• Social inequality or social structure
• Social capital
• Social movements