BR1226:03
Introduction to Sociology
Townsville, Cairns
26 lectures, 26 tutorials. Second semester. Flexible delivery by distance mode.
Available to Tertiary Access Course II students.
Staff: Ms D Stoter.
The content is drawn from Western concepts and notions of sociology with specific reference to issues affecting Indigenous Australians. Major topics: conceptualising sociology; the study of the application of power; the family and the community as unit of organisation; class, race, gender and inequality; youth, popular culture and subcultures; work and technology; work, leisure and control; postmodernity and identity; strategies for empowerment.
Learning Objectives:
- a critical awareness of the social, political and cultural forms of power that confront Indigenous Australians;
- an awareness of the central concepts addressed in sociological theories and concepts;
- the capacity to develop strategies which may lead to Indigenous people’s empowerment.
Assessment by essay (30%); oral presentation (20%); journal (50%).
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