Sociology U3 - AOS1: Australian Indigenous Culture (yr.2024-2027)

Notes filled for each study design key knowledge dot point for VCE including:

• The meaning of culture and its major components: non-material culture and material culture
• the sociological imagination as conceived by Charles Wright Mills and its connection to the study of cultures
• a range of historical and contemporary representations of Australian Indigenous cultures that could be interpreted as ethnocentric and/or culturally relativistic representations
• public misconceptions about Australian Indigenous cultures concerning:
• The historical suppression of Australian Indigenous culture through government policies and Indigenous responses to this suppression
• The process of reconciliation through symbolic and practical reconciliation