Course topics.

Try this with Sociology

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

• 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