VCE Sociology Units 3&4 Notes

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1. Culture, its components, and the sociological imagination (C. Wright Mills)3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Australian Indigenous cultures

2. Ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and awareness vs public views3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Australian Indigenous cultures

3. Three public misconceptions: terra nullius, 'one culture', and 'arid areas'3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Australian Indigenous cultures

4. Historical suppression: government policies and Indigenous responses3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Australian Indigenous cultures

5. Reconciliation (symbolic and practical) and the issue of changing awareness3 · AOS1

   Unit 3 AOS1 — Australian Indigenous cultures

6. Race vs ethnicity, and the process of othering3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Ethnicity

7. Cultural hybridity (Stuart Hall) and multiple cultural identities3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Ethnicity

8. Multiculturalism and Australia's diversity (comparative perspectives)3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Ethnicity

9. Belonging and inclusion: cultural practices, media and political factors3 · AOS2

   Unit 3 AOS2 — Ethnicity

10. Ethical methodology (TASA) and studying a specific ethnic group3 · AOS2

    Unit 3 AOS2 — Ethnicity

11. Tönnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft — how the concept of community changed4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Community

12. Maffesoli's neo-tribes — community in a postmodern, globalised world4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Community

13. Sense of community and the influences on belonging (general experience)4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Community

14. The selected community: classifying it and analysing perspectives within it4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Community

15. Ethical methodology and the Unit 3/Unit 4 selection constraint4 · AOS1

    Unit 4 AOS1 — Community

16. Social movements and social change: concepts and the four types4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Social movements and social change

17. The four stages of a social movement (life cycle)4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Social movements and social change

18. The six forms of power — used by movements and their opposition4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Social movements and social change

19. Chenoweth: why non-violent civil disobedience is more effective for social change4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Social movements and social change

20. The specific social movement: putting type, power, stage and Chenoweth together4 · AOS2

    Unit 4 AOS2 — Social movements and social change