The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia
Peter Beilharz,Trevor Hogan,Sheila Shaver
The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia
Peter Beilharz,Trevor Hogan,Sheila Shaver
Jean Martin was a pioneer of sociology, inventing a version of the discipline that was uniquely suited to Australia in the post-war period.
Jean Isobel Martin (1923-79) made herself a sociologist before the discipline was established in Australia. Regarded as a founder of Australian sociology, her writing, teaching and policy helped shape Australia in the period of economic growth and social development that followed World War II. The Martin Presence is a biography that examines her life and her work across the concerns of the time - the needs of country towns, the factory work floor, families and urban structure, poverty and inequality, education and immigration - and explores her far-reaching influence on the social sciences in Australia.
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