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When Prophecy Fails
Peter SaundersSeptember 9, 2011SP12

In their 2009 book, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett argued for the...

Life Under Challenging Regimes: Argentina and Zimbabwe
August 30, 2011
Living together demands civility
August 19, 2011The Canberra Times

The answer to increasingly hostile and aggressive public debate is a return to civility. Last...

A man’s home is his castle
August 19, 2011

The movie The Castle portrayed an ordinary Australian family determined to exercise one of their...

Connect cyber with reality
Rebecca GillAugust 19, 2011

French sociologist Emile Durkheim came up with the concept of ‘anomie,’ a situation where individuals...

Brits recoil from teaching respect for authority at home or school
Peter SaundersAugust 15, 2011The Australian

WHEN I was a student, I took a course in the sociology of deviance. After...

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