Raewyn
Connell is a very famous and successful Australian sociologist, born in 1944.
She is currently University Professor at the University of Sydney.
Raewyn Connell is a transgender woman,[3][dead link] and changed her name from Robert William Connell. She remains widely known under the initials R.W.
Connell became known for research on large-scale class dynamics ("Ruling Class, Ruling Culture", 1977 and "Class Structure in Australian History", 1980), and the ways class and gender hierarchies are re-made in the everyday life of schools ("Making the Difference", 1982).
She developed a social theory of gender relations ("Gender and Power", 1987), which emphasised that gender is a large-scale social structure not just a matter of personal identity. In applied fields she has worked on poverty and education ("Schools and Social Justice", 1993), sexuality and AIDS prevention, and labour movement strategy ("Socialism & Labor", 1978).
Connell is best known outside Australia for studies of the social construction of masculinity. She was one of the founders of this research field, and her book "Masculinities" (1995, 2005) is the most-cited in the field. The concept of "hegemonic masculinity" has been particularly influential and has attracted much debate.
Recently Connell has developed a sociology of intellectuals in the context of neoliberal globalization. Her latest book "Southern Theory" (2007) critiques the northern bias of mainstream social science, and surveys social theories that arise in the global periphery. Her current work concerns neoliberalism.
Connell's style of sociology tries to combine empirical research, structural theory, social critique, and relevance to practice. Much of her research uses biographical (life-history) interviewing. She has written or co-written twenty-one books and more than 150 research papers; her work is translated into 15 languages.
S A Hosseini
S A Hosseini is another famous Australian sociologist and lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, born in 1970.
He works in the fields of the global social movements, global social problems, sociology of knowledge, and the political sociology of ethnic minorities in the West.
His original research interests were in the political sociology of Iran and Islamist thoughts. This resulted in a series of articles published in an Iranian leftist magazine, through which he criticised the applicability of mainstream Western social theories in non-Western societies like Iran.
His PhD research at the ANU was in the area of social movements, focusing on the so-called anti-globalization movement. This resulted in Alternative Globalizations, a book which set out the main ideational features of the movement and developed a new way of theorising the (trans)formation of ideas, identities, and solidarities in globalized social movements.
His recent studies and publications have contributed to Social Sciences by developing new concepts such as accommodative consciousness, interactive solidarities, activist knowledge, social nexuses of inequality, ideological visions, transversal cosmopolitanism. It provides researchers in the areas of social movement and social ideation studies with a new integrative approach which accommodates major theoretical disputes.
Raewyn Connell is a transgender woman,[3][dead link] and changed her name from Robert William Connell. She remains widely known under the initials R.W.
Connell became known for research on large-scale class dynamics ("Ruling Class, Ruling Culture", 1977 and "Class Structure in Australian History", 1980), and the ways class and gender hierarchies are re-made in the everyday life of schools ("Making the Difference", 1982).
She developed a social theory of gender relations ("Gender and Power", 1987), which emphasised that gender is a large-scale social structure not just a matter of personal identity. In applied fields she has worked on poverty and education ("Schools and Social Justice", 1993), sexuality and AIDS prevention, and labour movement strategy ("Socialism & Labor", 1978).
Connell is best known outside Australia for studies of the social construction of masculinity. She was one of the founders of this research field, and her book "Masculinities" (1995, 2005) is the most-cited in the field. The concept of "hegemonic masculinity" has been particularly influential and has attracted much debate.
Recently Connell has developed a sociology of intellectuals in the context of neoliberal globalization. Her latest book "Southern Theory" (2007) critiques the northern bias of mainstream social science, and surveys social theories that arise in the global periphery. Her current work concerns neoliberalism.
Connell's style of sociology tries to combine empirical research, structural theory, social critique, and relevance to practice. Much of her research uses biographical (life-history) interviewing. She has written or co-written twenty-one books and more than 150 research papers; her work is translated into 15 languages.
S A Hosseini
S A Hosseini is another famous Australian sociologist and lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia, born in 1970.
He works in the fields of the global social movements, global social problems, sociology of knowledge, and the political sociology of ethnic minorities in the West.
His original research interests were in the political sociology of Iran and Islamist thoughts. This resulted in a series of articles published in an Iranian leftist magazine, through which he criticised the applicability of mainstream Western social theories in non-Western societies like Iran.
His PhD research at the ANU was in the area of social movements, focusing on the so-called anti-globalization movement. This resulted in Alternative Globalizations, a book which set out the main ideational features of the movement and developed a new way of theorising the (trans)formation of ideas, identities, and solidarities in globalized social movements.
His recent studies and publications have contributed to Social Sciences by developing new concepts such as accommodative consciousness, interactive solidarities, activist knowledge, social nexuses of inequality, ideological visions, transversal cosmopolitanism. It provides researchers in the areas of social movement and social ideation studies with a new integrative approach which accommodates major theoretical disputes.
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