Australian Indigenous Cultures
The non-biological, symbolic, learned patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, which combine to form a person's way of life.
What is culture?
Judging another's culture by the standards of one's own, which promotes prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypes.
What is ethnocentrism?
A group of people who share social relationships through being geographically close, and/or in regular contact, and have shared interests and/or ideologies.
What is the sociological concept of community?
A form of collective action which emerges in response to perceived injustices, oppression, and/or demands that go unmet in society.
What is a social movement?
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What is the Pacific Ocean?
Coined by C Wright Mills, it provides a framework to guide objective analysis and critical thinking. It is "the ability to make a link between personal troubles and public issues" and can be applied through Willis' 4 factors: cultural, critical, structural, and historical.
What is the Sociological Imagination?
Coined by sociologist Stuart Hall, refers to new cultural forms which result from a mixture of two or more cultural influences, and involves a process where individuals develop connections across cultural groups, identifying with and choosing elements of multiple cultures to form a blended ethnic identity.
What is ethnic hybridity?
Critical of the impact of industrialisation and urbanisation on the types of relationships found within social groupings, this theory described these changes through the contrast between gemeinschaft (community) and gesellschaft (society). Where a gemeinschaft community is bound together in a tightly knit pattern, socially homogeneous and based on a clear-cut piece of territory, gesellschaft are descriptive of post-Industrial, urban communities which have weak social ties and contractual relationships where people come together by choice, rather than tradition or kinship, usually for self-interest.
What is the theory of Ferdinand Tonnies?
Political, economic, cultural, technological, environmental.
What are different types of social change?
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How many days does the average Victorian spend at school from prep to year 12?
Focuses on social justice component which recognises historical injustice and Indigenous rights such as the formal Apology to the Stolen Generation in 2008, as well as education programs designed to combat racism and discrimination, aiming for increased awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, as well as healing, continuation of culture and the prevention of stereotypes.
What is symbolic reconciliation?
Sociologist Bhabha identified that for second generation migrants, their experience is one of conflict as they move from one cultural identity to the complete assimilation into a new cultural identity. From this sense of conflict, Berry identified that people may take one of four outcomes: assimilation, withdrawal, marginalisation, and integration. This demonstrates that there can be both positive and negative experiences for those who identify as this concept.
What is the connection between ethnic hybridity and experiences of ethnicity?
Fluid and flexible, they emerge around shared lifestyles, interests, or values rather than fixed social categories like class or ethnicity. This theory argues that these group are characterized by their ephemeral nature, with members frequently shifting affiliations based on personal interests and experiences. This concept reflects broader social changes towards individualism and the fragmentation of traditional community structures in modern society.
What is the theory of Michel Maffesoli/what are neo-tribes?
While one refers to change that is made within an existing system, the other sees the system itself as the problem and advocates for a complete overhaul of the existing system, replacing it with a new system based on the ideologies of the participants.
What is the difference between reformative and revolutionary social movements?
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Who is Adam Briggs?
For some this day represents a celebration of the nation, but for many Indigenous Australians this represents the beginning of the dispossession of land, people and culture that has led to significant intergenerational trauma and inequalities which still impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today.
What is January 26th/Australia Day?
Australia's current immigration policy which recognises the challenges that migrants faced, accepts that migrant culture is a part of Australia's heritage, and prioritises the right for migrants to practice their cultural identity and adopt Australian culture at their own pace. This was officially adopted as an immigration policy in 1978 and continues to be the main immigration approach in Australia today.
What is the Multicultural Policy?
Describes the gap between people who have access to affordable, reliable internet service (and the skills and gadgets necessary to take advantage of that access) and those who lack it.
What is the digital divide?
A reformative social movement which emerged in 1980, originally as the Federation of Animals Societies, and was founded by Peter Singer and Christine Townend aiming to investigate and expose animal cruelty and promote animal welfare across the different sectors. They aim to create a "kinder world" by advocating for political, cultural and economic change across a range of campaigns.
Who is Animals Australia?
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When is the Sociology Exam?
Defined as the the domination of one culture over another by deliberate policy or through economic or technological superiority, this was the main aim of successive government policies, such as the Protection and Segregation policies of the 1800s, and the Assimilation Policy of the mid 1900s in Australia.
What is cultural suppression?
In the wake of the Second World War, with Australia again being concerned about its relatively small population compared with its neighbouring countries, Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell revived the 'populate or perish' idea. When there were not enough British citizens migrating to Australia, Calwell opened passage to the 'Beautiful Balts'. Over time, other groups were allowed to migrate to Australia, such as those from Asia attending university in Australia on student visas, which changed public opinion towards migration. Finally, a stunt pulled by Charles Perkins, staging a fake kidnapping to avoid the deportation of 5 year old Nancy Prasad, and the subsequent media storm and public protests, finally led to this policy being abolished.
What led to the abolishment of the White Australia Policy?
Members share a geographic location, being 600 acres on Mt Toolebewong, and have chosen to be a part of this community based on a shared purpose of environmental sustainability and communal living which is in contrast to the typical experiences of community in our urban, post-modern world. This community was established in 1974 with the aims of living in a sustainably conscious way, together, and currently has 70 members - 50 adults and 20 children.
What is the Moora Moora community?
In response to the 2019 60 Minutes expose, where secretly recorded footage aboard the Awassi Express uncovered the dangerous conditions sheep faced in the high temperatures of the Northern Hemisphere summer, Australia's largest livestock exporter, Emanuel Exports, had their license cancelled. After further investigation, the government implemented a live export ban during the Northern Hemisphere summer (May-October). In 2024, the Australian Government has announced the export of live sheep by sea will end on 1 May 2028.
What has been a major achievement of Animals Australia?
This describes people who are able to use both their left and right hand equally well.
What is ambidextrous?