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1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Defining and distinguishing continuity and change in societies
• Social, Cultural, Political, Economic and Environmental Factors as Drivers of Change
• Modernisation: Theory, Processes and Critique
• Westernisation: cultural diffusion, power and resistance
• Globalisation: dimensions, processes and effects on persons and societies
• The Five Fundamental Concepts: Society, Culture, Persons, Environment and Time
• Power, authority, gender and technology as cross-curriculum concepts
• Quantitative and qualitative research methods in the PIP and beyond
• Analysing Social Life at Micro, Meso and Macro Levels
• Effects of Continuity and Change on Individuals, Communities and the World
• Defining popular culture: origins, characteristics and the mass media
• Popular culture, identity formation and cultural imperialism
• Types of Belief Systems and Their Social Functions
• Belief systems as agents of and resistors to change
• How societies include and exclude: power, discrimination and disadvantage
• Responses to Social Exclusion: Policy, Advocacy and Community Action
• Social norms, deviance and the spectrum from conformity to nonconformity
• Formal and Informal Agents of Social Control
• Applying Ethical Research Principles in Depth Study Investigations
• Nonconformity, Social Movements and the Dynamics of Social Change