A local council is preparing a “Multicultural Weekend” event. One stall is run by a migrant community organisation representing a specific ethnic group in Australia. The organisers want the stall to help visitors understand the group’s distinctive culture, but they are concerned about reducing the group to stereotypes or only focusing on “food and festivals”. The community organisation provides a short planning note: “We want to show visitors both what we do (objects, clothing, foods, art) and what we believe and value (language, religion, family expectations, celebrations, and ways of communicating). We also want to show that not everyone in our community practises culture in exactly the same way.”
a. Describe one example of material culture and one example of non-material culture that could be used at the stall to represent this ethnic group’s distinctive culture.
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In this unit, students explore expressions of culture and ethnicity within Australian society in two different contexts – Australian Indigenous cultures, and ethnicity in relation to migrant groups. Students critically examine the historical suppression and increasing public awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, and investigate ethnicity as a key sociological category, considering how ethnic identities are formed, experienced, and shaped by various forces.
Students examine the sociological concepts of race and ethnicity, the process of othering, and the theory of cultural hybridity. They investigate Australia’s ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, factors influencing belonging and inclusion, and the ethical implications of research into ethnic groups, including a case study of a specific ethnic group.
an overview of the non-material and material culture distinctive to the group
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