'Jean Isobel Martin (1923-1979), sociologist, was born on 21 June 1923 at East Malvern, Melbourne, third daughter of David Craig, a civil servant from Scotland, and his Victorian-born wife Elizabeth, née Alexander. Jean attended Abbotsleigh Church of England School for Girls, Sydney, and studied anthropology under A. P. Elkin at the University of Sydney (B.A., 1943; M.A., 1945), gaining first-class honours and the university medal for her master's degree. In 1943-47, 1949-50 and 1956 she was employed as a lecturer at the university. Elkin encouraged her to move from anthropology to sociology. One of her earliest pieces of research was on women in a Sydney hosiery factory; her M.A. thesis was on dairy farmers in New South Wales. Obliged to travel abroad for formal training in sociology, she briefly attended classes at the London School of Economics (1947) before studying in 1947-48 at the University of Chicago, United States of America. She was influenced by W. Lloyd Warner, whose blend of a qualitative and quantitative approach to sociology became her hallmark, although her own work had in addition a strong focus on policy. In 1954 she graduated Ph.D. from the Australian National University.'
