Dr Jason Pudsey
Email: Jason.Pudsey@flinders.edu.au
Phone: (61 8) 8201-2454
Fax: (61 8) 8201-3521
Room: 311 SSN
Senior Lecturer
PhD (1996) University of Western Sydney
BA (Hons) (1991) University of Western Sydney
Postal Address:
Department of Sociology
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia
Research Interests
• Sociological Theory
• Philosophy of Social Research
• Sexuality and Society
• Social Control and Resistance
• Multiculturalism
• Sociology of Culture
• Gender
• Religion
• Historical Sociology
Jason Pudsey researches in the areas of cultural theory, youth cultures, and historical sociology. His main concern has been with the construction and destruction of meaning in human life and the social consequences of such processes. His work on cultural theory has argued for new interpretations of the work of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu, and emphasised the insights and limitations of these thinkers in providing an understanding of how the meaning of love, death and power within a culture shapes its social organization. By taking a broad historical sociological view of meaning-generation through narratives around love, death and power (which has included research on the Ancient and Medieval West), his research has examined how contemporary Western cultures, especially youth cultures, understand themselves and others in light of questions of meaning.
Select Publications
Symonds, M. and Pudsey, J. (2008) The concept of 'Paradox' in the work of Max Weber, Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 2, 223-241.
Pudsey, J. (2006) “The Forms of Brotherly Love in the Works of Max Weber” Sociological Theory, 24(2): 133-149.
Pudsey, J. (2005) Ancient Society: Personality and Power in Egypt, Greece and Rome Sydney: Science Press.
Duggin, S. and Pudsey, J. (2005) “Care Ethics, Power and Feminist Socioanalysis” in Feminist Alliances New York: Rodopi: 109-132.