Year 12 · VCE / Sociology
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Topics in the resource inventory
- Culture, its components, and the sociological imagination (C. Wright Mills)
- Ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and awareness vs public views
- Three public misconceptions: terra nullius, 'one culture', and 'arid areas'
- Historical suppression: government policies and Indigenous responses
- Reconciliation (symbolic and practical) and the issue of changing awareness
- Race vs ethnicity, and the process of othering
- Cultural hybridity (Stuart Hall) and multiple cultural identities
- Multiculturalism and Australia's diversity (comparative perspectives)
- Belonging and inclusion: cultural practices, media and political factors
- Ethical methodology (TASA) and studying a specific ethnic group
- Tönnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft — how the concept of community changed
- Maffesoli's neo-tribes — community in a postmodern, globalised world
- Sense of community and the influences on belonging (general experience)
- The selected community: classifying it and analysing perspectives within it
- Ethical methodology and the Unit 3/Unit 4 selection constraint
- Social movements and social change: concepts and the four types
- The four stages of a social movement (life cycle)
- The six forms of power — used by movements and their opposition
- Chenoweth: why non-violent civil disobedience is more effective for social change
- The specific social movement: putting type, power, stage and Chenoweth together
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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