Social Movements & Social Change
Adjustments and fluctuations in views, values, norms and structures in society in response to various factors such as laws, the actions and interests of specific groups of people, government policies, available resources and the way is society is organised.
What is social change?
A group of people who share social relationships through being geographically close to each other and/or being in regular contact with each other, and through having similarities such as mutual interests and/or shared ideology.
What is a community?
Refers to a shared cultural heritage and way of life.
What is ethnicity?
The past perception that Australia was land that belonged to no-one prior to European arrival, that Indigenous Australians share one culture and that Australian Indigenous people mainly live in arid areas of Australia.
What public misconceptions about Australian Indigenous cultures exist?
The way of life of a particular group or society and is comprised of symbols, languages, values, and norms. These are learnt by members and passed on to following generations. It can include material or non-material components.
What is culture?
Advocating for major or radical change within in an individual, like Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is a redemptive social movement?
What are some current examples of Gemeinschaft groups?
The categorisation of a group of people based on physical characteristics such as skin colour, eye shape, hair type and bone structure.
What is race?
The 1869 Aborigines Protection Act 1869 (Victoria)
What is evidence of policies of protection and segregation in Australia between the 1840s - 1910s?
The tangible aspects of culture; things that we can see and touch, including objects, places and living things that have meaning for a group. This can include tools, land, clothing, food and animals that have meaning for a particular culture.
What is material culture?
The most extreme social movements, advocate for a reorganisation of society as a whole, through seeking radical change to society, like the Russian revolution of 1917.
What is a revolutionary social movement?
Workplace social clubs, fitness centres, online communities and large cities like Melbourne.
What are some current examples of Gesellschaft groups?
A phenomenon in which some individuals or groups are defined and labelled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group; it plays a role in the formation of prejudices against people and groups.
What is othering?
By disconnecting Indigenous people from Country, destroying material culture, disrupting language, spirituality, ceremony and caring for Country.
How did policies of 'protection' and segregation suppress culture?
What is non-material culture?
A method of struggle in which unarmed people confront adversaries by using collective action - including protests, demonstrations, strikes, and non-cooperation.
What is non-violent resistance?
Shared interests, shared territory (space), a desire to connect with their 'eternal child' and fluid/changing group aims and membership.
What categorises a neo tribe?
The practice of several different cultures coexisting peacefully and equitably in a single country.
What is multiculturalism?
Policies dominant between the 1930s and 1950s that expected that First Nations peoples should be absorbed into mainstream (white) Australian culture.
What were the policies of assimilation?
A critical thinking tool that allows sociologists to see personal problems as public issues, it gives an awareness of the relationship between personal experience and wider society.
What is the sociological imagination?
Legitimate, coercive and reward.
What are the types of formal power?
Shared values and beliefs, shared experiences, social support, inclusion and communication and interaction.
What factors influence feelings of belonging?
Belonging and inclusion.
What factors are enablers?
Tangible actions that can improve people's lives, like funding education, health and housing; implementing legislation around land and water rights, the Closing the Gap initiative.
What is practical reconciliation?
Both concepts are about being able to interpret the beliefs and values that underpin a representation, but one is used to describe attitudes that judge other cultures using the evaluators own culture as the measure of what is superior, whereas the other is a method where different societies or cultures are analysed without using the values of one culture to judge the worth of another.
What is the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?