Communication & Social Control
The Japanese digital ID system linking every resident's tax, health and social security data
My Number
The UDHR article protecting freedom of opinion and expression
Article 19
The term for a culture's knowledge, values and practices being maintained across generations despite pressure
Cultural continuity
Analysing existing government statistics (rather than collecting new data) is an example of which research method?
Secondary research
Is adolescence purely biological, or a social construct?
A social construct, built on a biological foundation (puberty) but shaped by society
The historical Japanese practice of tagging students who spoke regional dialect in school
Hōgen fuda
The theory describing how algorithms narrow the content you're exposed to
Filter Bubble Theory
The name of the bilingual newspaper that can be used as an example of cultural continuity for the Ainu people
The Ainu Times
The term for showing respect for cultural diversity while critically examining social issues
Social and cultural literacy
Name one institution that helps extend or construct the period of adolescence in Australia
School/education, family, or media/consumer culture (any one)
Briefly explain the difference between formal and informal social control
Formal = codified rules with defined consequences (laws)
Informal = unwritten norms enforced through social reaction
The difference between intra-generational and cross-generational communication
Intra = within the same age cohort
Inter = across different age cohorts (also known as cross-generational)
The theory (developed by Howard Giles) explaining why people adjust their communication style toward or away from others
Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)
Local Indian dance groups teaching traditional customs while sharing performances on social media demonstrate which concept?
Cultural continuity
Name one community mentioned in relation to a different, less individualised model of the transition to adulthood
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (kinship obligations, cultural knowledge, Country)
The Japanese cult responsible for the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack
Aum Shinrikyo
The 2022 case where a Washington Post journalist revealed the identity of an anonymous political account creator
Libs of TikTok (Taylor Lorenz revealing Chaya Raichik)
The term for adjusting your communication to become more similar to another person or group
Convergence
The term for an identity formed by combining elements from different cultures
Hybridity / hybrid identity
What can algorithms do to limit social and cultural literacy?
Create echo chambers, repeatedly showing content that supports existing beliefs, limiting exposure to alternative perspectives
The year of the Ainu Promotion Act, first legal recognition of the Ainu as Indigenous
2019
Briefly describe yhe difference between a legal right and an ethical responsibility
A legal right is protected/enforceable by law; an ethical responsibility is how you should act even without legal compulsion
Name one strength and one weakness of Communication Accommodation Theory
Strength: explains real observable behaviour / empirically grounded / broadly applicable (any one)
Weakness: oversimplifies identity into strategic choice / doesn't explain resistance to accommodating / "appropriate" accommodation is culturally variable (any one)
Name the three levels of social analysis, and one example of each
Micro (e.g. family), meso (e.g. school), macro (e.g. government/national media)
Why might applying "adolescence" as a universal, fixed category risk ethnocentrism?
It treats a Western pattern of development (extended schooling, economic dependence) as the normal standard and judges other cultures' transitions against it