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Cora Vellekoop Baldock (born 16 December 1935) is an Australian-Dutch Sociologist. She was president of the Australian Sociological Association 1979-1980 and served as a member of the Australian Federal Government's Multicultural Advisory Committee. She was the first female professor at Murdoch University, Perth, and its first professor of sociology.


Biography

Cora Baldock was born Corrie Vellekoop on 16 December 1935 in
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, the
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. She grew up with relatives who worked in academia, which influenced her decision to study sociology at Leiden University, from which she graduated cum laude in 1960. Her master's thesis was on stratification in women's occupations. As an undergraduate, she was a mentor to Princess, later Queen,
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. She obtained her PhD entitled ''Social stratification in New Zealand: vocational choices, achievement values and occupational stratification'' from the University of Canterbury in
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. Baldock married in 1970, and has two children.


Career

Following her PhD, Baldock moved to the US, teaching at
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, California and Bernard Baruch College at the City University of New York. She was a senior lecturer at
Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...
before becoming Murdoch University's first female professor and first professor of sociology. She worked at ANU for 22 years. She was president of the Australian Sociological Association from 1979 to 1980, and founded the association's Jean Martin award committee. Baldock was a member of the Federal Government's Multicultural Advisory Committee in the 1990s. Her research interests are in the sociology of work, women's studies, and the intersection of gender and social policy. She has highlighted and redressed in her work the lack of differentiation by sex in sociological analyses of class stratification. Her study ''Volunteers in Welfare'' (1990) was an influential analysis of the resurgence of volunteering and the
voluntary sector The voluntary sector, independent sector, or civic sector is the realm of social activity undertaken by organizations that are non-governmental nonprofit organizations. This sector is also called the third sector, community sector, and nonprofit ...
, and the tension between volunteering as a low-cost provision of social welfare and as a means of individual self-development for volunteers. In it, Baldock argues volunteer work represents the features of a
capitalist state The capitalist state is the state, its functions and the form of organization it takes within capitalist socioeconomic systems.Jessop, Bob (January 1977). "Recent Theories of the Capitalist State". ''Soviet Studies''. 1: 4. pp. 353–373. This ...
and the patriarchy, by fulfilling their economic and
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functions and maintaining their status quo.


Publications

* Baldassar, Loretta; Baldock, Cora Vellekoop and Wilding, Raelene, ''Families Caring Across Borders, Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving'', Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, England, 2007. * Baldock, Cora Vellekoop, 'Long-distance Migrants and Family Support', ''Health Sociology Review'', vol. 12, no. 1, 2003, pp. 45–54. *Baldock, Cora Vellekoop, ''Volunteers in Welfare'', Allen & Unwin, Sydney, New South Wales, 1990. * Baldock, Cora Vellekoop, ''Seniors as volunteers: an international perspective on policy'', Ageing and Society, vol. 19, 1999, 581-602 pp. * Baldock, Cora Vellekoop and Cass, Bettina, ''Women, Social Welfare and the State in Australia'', 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, New South Wales, 1988. * Baldock, Cora Vellekoop and Lally, Jim, ''Sociology in Australia and New Zealand: Theory and Methods'', Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, United States of America, 1974.


References

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