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This study brings three empirical findings from the Australia–New Zealand region to considering the current state of sociology in this part of the world. Focusing on sites of institutional disciplinary reproduction, we point to the disappearance of sociology-named organisational units, the spread of sociological PhDs across university faculties and the interdisciplinary nature of sociology PhD journal publishing. In the constant restructuring of university education, sociology is one of many disciplines impacted by corporatist decision making. These changes external to sociology are paralleled by internal debates on the discipline's core and periphery and its boundaries in relation to other social sciences. Long-running contentions among sociologists involve the nature and success of the discipline. We frame our contribution to the conversation through two contrasting conceptual terms, invisibilisation and sociologification, twin processes of sociology being less visible yet finding it widely spread across today's Australasian academy. Sociology's sustainability remains an open question.

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