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Jean Martin (nee Jean Craig) was the founding mother of Australian sociology. She trained in Anthropology with A.P. Elkin at the University of Sydney, conducting pioneering work into rural sociology at the age of 22. In 1947, she travelled to the University of Chicago. He subsequent interests shifted from internal migration to international migration, multiculturalism and displacement. This paper, part of research in progress for an intellectual biography, enquires into the question of what she learned in Sydney and what she learned in Chicago, and how these two knowledge bases and cultures combined to generate one of the most important founding sociologies in Australia. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper conjoins two different, but necessarily related themes: the nature of the sixties (and seventies) in Australia, and the establishment of academic sociology there. The sixties in Australia, as elsewhere, saw the efflourescence of student radicalism and the confirmation of youth culture, both in and against markets or consumption. This had a direct formative influence on academic sociology, which coincides exactly with this moment. Australia has a long tradition of informal sociology, but encounters nothing like the Chicago School - nothing like Chicago, in fact - its culture is settler capitalist rather than Fordist or high industrial. The radical image of sociology in Australia, powerfully influenced by marxism and feminism, may nevertheless in retrospect be exaggerated. The presentation based on this paper in Montreal will pursue further research conducted into 2006, with reference to the founding of Australia's largest and most distinct departmental culture, that at La Trobe University under the influence of Jean Martin, and with reference to the pivotal split between radicals and reformers in the newly formed Australia and New Zealand Journal of Sociology in 1971. Finally, I shall connect these Australian themes back to those raised in Sica and Turner's Disobedient Generation (2005). In Australia, as perhaps elsewhere, sociology's larger identification is with reform rather than with revolution or reaction, even if its aura remains romantic as much as it is business-as-usual. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper responds to George Ritzer’s response to a review symposium of his new book, The Globalization of Nothing, published in Thesis Eleven 76, 2004. Ritzer takes the main criticism of his new book to concentrate on the insufficiency of his marxist credentials. In this paper I follow this cue to discuss the question of the influence of the romantic and melancholic critique of capitalism and modernity. What draws Weber in the direction of Marx in this regard is the influence of romanticism, which arguably influences all of subsequent critical and social theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Edward Bellamy is widely viewed as philistine or fascist, or somewhere in between. This paper puzzles over the reception of Bellamy and especially Looking Backward, his big hit of 1888. The negative reception arguably opens with William Morris' refusal, which becomes a widespread commonsense. Three recent works, by Lipow, Thomas, and Rosemont, are used to frame the more recent reception. Then I offer some reflections based on my work as the 2002 William Dean Howells Fellow at the Houghton Library, Harvard, where my brief was to look into Bellamy's papers with an eye to their reception. I look back over Bellamy's orienting paper, 'The Religion of Solidarity' and begin to locate Bellamy in his more immediate setting, and connect his thinking to obvious resonances in Durkheim and Hegel. Finally, I return to the theme of utopia connecting it both back, to Fénelon's 1699 text, Telemachus, and forward to Arthur Morgan's work on the TVA. Both dimensions, Spartan and social engineering, are plausible, for contrary to Morris' charge, Bellamy's was indeed a mixed modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jean Martin (née Craig) is known to us primarily for her work on multiculturalism and The Migrant Presence (1978). Her prehistory contains some interesting surprises. Craig was a pioneer industrial sociologist, conducting careful research work in a Sydney lingerie factory in 1950. This, as her earlier rural work, was brokered by her mentor and teacher A P Elkin. It dovetails with her theoretical interests in the work of Durkheim, Mayo and Warner on industrial solidarity and her own curiosity, via her work with Shils, on primary groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]