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14 Cards in this Set
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Define the sociological imagination |
A term used to describe the sociological approach to analysing issues. Making a link between personal troubles and public issues |
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Define culture |
A societies entire way of life |
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Define material culture |
Refers to all physical objects, artifacts, resources and spaces within a society |
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Define non material culture |
Refers to all the non physical creations and ideas of a society, such as knowledge, values, beliefs |
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Define norms |
Values shared within a society Folk ways, laws, mores |
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Evan Willis theory |
Historical, How the past influences the present. Culture, what influence do tradition, values, belief system and culture background have on experience or understanding. Structural, how do social institutions and organizations cultural experience. Critical, why are things like they are |
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Ethnocentrism |
Judging another culture by the standards of your own. Historical, great chain of being and natural selection. Contemporary, negative media coverage. |
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Cultural relativism |
Judging another culture by the standards of your own. Historical, ACARA - mandatory indigenous cultural education. Contemporary, the wathurang gang, painting white aboriginal faces black |
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Protection and serigation policy |
Collection of policies that commenced in the 1800's Involved the separation of indigenous people into mission and reserves going off the assumption that their race would die out otherwise. |
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Assimilation policy |
1951 All aboriginal people shall attain the same manner of living as other white Australians |
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Integration Policy |
1965 Australian Indigenous people have their own culture, language and customs that need to be westernised. |
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Reconciliation |
Recognising injustices and making changes in a society to redress human right violation. Symbolic, focuses on the social justice component, and recognizes historical injustice. Eg Arthur Cowell speech 1964. Practical, focuses on providing services to address inequalities that exist in our society, eg NT intervention, close the gap program |
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Authur Cowell speech |
1964 Aboriginals are not a dying race, they are not being observed or assimilated, however you like to discribe it. |
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NT intervention |
June 21st 2007 Caused by the findings in the "children are sacred" report A ban on alcohol and pornography and a quarantine on 50% of welfare payments |
