Flashcards and recall.

Try this with Sociology

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Define 'culture' in the sociological sense.
• Distinguish between material culture and non-material culture.
• State the sociological imagination as conceived by C. Wright Mills (1959).
• Explain the difference between a 'personal trouble' and a 'public issue' (Mills).
• Define ethnocentrism.
• Define cultural relativism.
• What was the doctrine of 'terra nullius', and why is it a public misconception?
• Name two common public misconceptions about Australian Indigenous cultures besides terra nullius.
• Distinguish 'awareness' from 'public views' in this AOS.
• List, in order, the four broad eras of government policy that suppressed Indigenous cultures.
• What was the aim of the assimilation policy?
• What was the NTER (the 'Intervention') of 2007?
• Distinguish symbolic reconciliation from practical reconciliation.
• What is the purpose of the Closing the Gap framework?
• Why might a historical representation of Indigenous people be read as 'ethnocentric'?
• Define 'race' as a sociological concept.
• Define 'ethnicity'.
• Why do sociologists prefer the concept of ethnicity over race?
• Define the process of 'othering'.
• How does othering contribute to prejudice?
• State the theory of cultural hybridity as informed by Stuart Hall.
• Give an example of cultural hybridity in everyday experience.
• What is a 'comparative perspectives' methodology?
• Define multiculturalism.
• Identify three factors that can enable or prevent a sense of belonging in multicultural Australia.
• What is meant by a 'sense of belonging and inclusion'?
• State the four core principles of an ethical methodology (TASA guidelines).
• Distinguish voluntary participation from informed consent.
• Distinguish privacy from confidentiality in research ethics.
• What is the purpose of applying an ethical methodology to studying an ethnic group?
• Define 'community' in sociology.
• State Ferdinand Tonnies' concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
• According to Tonnies, how does community change with modernisation?
• State Michel Maffesoli's theory of neo-tribes.
• How do neo-tribes differ from traditional Gemeinschaft communities?
• Define a 'sense of community'.
• Name the two components that combine to create a 'sense of community'.
• List the categories of factors that influence the experience of community.
• How can ICT both strengthen and weaken a sense of community?
• How can geographical characteristics influence community belonging?