By Tamara Francis and Amanda Newell, Clancy Catholic College

Year 11 Society and Culture 2018

TASK 1 Notification The Social and Cultural World

Task: Application of Concepts to a contemporary issue Student number: ……………………………………

DATE OF ASSESSMENT:

KLA: HSIE ROOM:

WEIGHTING: 25%

TASK TYPE: Hand-In printed copy: Application of Concepts Infographic

SYLLABUS OUTCOMES: A student:

P1. Identifies and applies social and cultural concepts.

P3. Identifies and describes relationships and interactions within and between social and cultural groups. P9. Uses appropriate course language and concepts suitable for different audiences and contexts.

P10. Communicates information, ideas and issues using appropriate written, oral and graphic forms.

Preliminary Unit 1: The Social and Cultural World Getting Contemporary & Conceptual

Rationale: One of the main challenges encountered by students at the beginning of their Society and Culture journey is learning to ‘think conceptually about the world around them’. The conceptual frameworks in Society and Culture can not be learnt through memorisation. Rather, students need to have a ‘living and breathing- flexible and interrelated understanding- of course concepts’ in a broader social and cultural context. The following task has been designed to develop student capacity in the above areas. It could be modified to be utilised as an informal or formal learning experience. Syllabus Links:

• Contemporary context use examples drawn from contemporary society

• the relationship of the belief system or ideology to wider society: - acceptance and rejection of the philosophy at the micro, meso and macro levels

(Source: Adapted from NESA, Society and Culture Syllabus, (2013), NESA: Sydney, New South Wales, p.37).

Task Instructions: In Society and Culture this term we have been exploring the foundations of the course, including the application of course concepts (fundamental, additional and related) to contemporary issues. For the purposes of this task, you are a social researcher preparing an infographic for The Today Show on a contemporary issue (national or global).

This task is made up of TWO parts: Part 1 - Infographic (10 marks)

- Create a infographic on a contemporary issue of your choosing (this can be national or international)

- You will need to conduct academic research into your chosen contemporary issue - Organise your infographic by applying a minimum of 4 relevant concepts. These may be

selected from Fundamental, Additional or Related concepts. - You should communicate the key ideas in your chosen contemporary issue through

meaningful visual and written format.

Visual format could include: shapes, images, colours, patterns, size, symbols, diagrams Written format should include: keywords, succinct and meaningful points, data/statistics

- Both visual and written features can be used to assist in constructing the written critique of your chosen contemporary issue in relation to Society and Culture concepts (Part 2).

In class we will go through examples of infographics which will illustrate the expectations and

relevant components of the task Part 2 - Critique of the contemporary issue (400 words, with a 10% leeway) (15 marks)

Critique your selected contemporary issue through an application of the conceptual framework of

Society and Culture:

- You are to use the Fundamental, Additional and/or Related concepts and course language to analyse your chosen contemporary issue in relation to the:

● Key ideas underpinning the contemporary issue ● The impact of the contemporary issue on the relevant micro, meso and macro

levels of society and culture ● The possible future directions of the contemporary issue (continuity and/or

change) Please note:

● You are required to have a fully referenced bibliography with a minimum of FIVE academic sources (structured according to the referencing conventions in the College Diary)

● Your infographic, critique and bibliography must be printed and submitted on the due date

● The contemporary issue needs to be different to the one chosen for your Media Watch.

Resources to assist you:

● Society and Culture textbook, sociology textbooks, journal articles ● Periodicals – The Conversation, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Bulletin, Time Magazine,

New Internationalist etc. ● See http://mccrindle.com.au/research-resources#infographics for inspiration ● Bringing Research Data to Life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Nz5x1jiMc

Possible contemporary issues could include:

- Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation and changing nature of marriage in Australia - Faith in a secular society: the changing religious landscape in Australia - #MeToo - What does this movement say about gender roles and status of women and

men in contemporary western societies? - White privilege in contemporary western societies - Ethnic diversity in western (english speaking films and television series) societies - Are we living in an age of terror? Terrorism and fear in contemporary Australian

society. - Fake news: fact, fiction and authenticity in contemporary society - Changing nature of adolescence? Why are Gen Z staying in school longer, living at

home longer, delaying marriage? - The F-word! Investigating constructions of contemporary feminism in western societies. - Multiculturalism and cultural diversity in Australia. - The changing nature of Christmas or Easter - the commodification of religious

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Student Notes Sheet: Task 1- Society and Culture, 2018

Step 1: When beginning your research it is important that you select a contemporary issue that is of interest to you AND is supported with a range of academic evidence.

When researching your chosen contemporary issue you could use the following scaffold to organise the secondary sources you locate. In each box you could provide a short summary of the secondary source AND what it tells you about your chosen topic. * Remember: You need to collect the following details about every source for your bibliography. (Author, Date, Title, Publisher, Location and link to the source)

Secondary Source 1:

Secondary Source 2:

Secondary Source 6:

Outline of your contemporary issue:

Secondary Source 3:

Secondary Source 5: Secondary Source 4:

This is an example: TowhatextentdoeswhiteprivilegeexistwithinAustraliansocietyandculture?

Secondary Source 1: Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1989), Wellesley: Center for Research on Women. https://www.wcwonline.org/images/pdf/Knapsack_plus_Notes-Peggy_McIntosh.pdf This source is useful as it is from Peggy McIntosh- the first academic/researcher to use the term ‘white privilege’. “I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was “meant” to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks.” (McIntosh, 1989, p.1) “I see a pattern running through the matrix of white privilege, a pattern of assumptions that were passed on to me as a white person. There was one main piece of cultural turf; it was my own turf, and I was among those who could control the turf. My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make. I could think of myself as belonging in major ways and of making social systems work for me. I could freely disparage, fear, neglect, or be oblivious to anything outside of the dominant cultural forms. Being of the main culture, I could also criticize it fairly freely” (McIntosh, 1989, p.3)

Secondary Source 2: Source: ANU (2010) Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Across Minority Groups in Australia http://library.bsl.org.au/jspui/bitstream/1/1141/1 Does_racial_and_ethnic_discrimination_vary.pdf This source is useful as it provides an insight into white privilege in practise within the context of the Australian workforce. The source ‘is a bit dated’ (2010). I will continue looking for a more recent version of this study. Australian National University (ANU) 2010 Study into inherent bias and employment

•Sent out 4000 applications for entry level graduate jobs.

•Only difference between applications were the assumed ethnic origins of the names.

Secondary Source 6: ‘Whitesplaining’: what it is and how it works October 1, 2015 10.21am AEST The Conversation Catriona Elder Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Sydney.

https://theconversation.com/whitesplaining-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-48175

This source is useful as it looks at how persons are unconscious of their white privilege when they explain racial diversity (or the lack of it).

Outline of your contemporary issue:

To what extent does white privilege exist

within Australian society and culture?

Secondary Source 3: Mapping Social Cohesion (2015), The Scanlon Foundation Surveys http://scanlonfoundation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-Mapping-Social-Cohesion-Report.pdf Have you experienced discrimination over the previous twelve months because of your skin colour, ethnic origin or religion?

Secondary Source 5: 2016 Oscars boycott #OscarsSoWhite protest https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/22/hollywood-so-white-diversity-report-us-film-industry-ethnic-minorities-lgbt-women This source is useful as it could look at ‘protest groups and networks’ that are developing to put pressure (exert power) on Hollywood/popular culture to have a broader range of ethnicities in film and television.

“The figures make equally bad reading for all groups disadvantaged in Hollywood. Women make up only 3% of all film directors, while only 2% of speaking characters in all 414 film, TV and digital shows assessed were identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual. Over half of all films or shows fail to include a single non-white character (despite the fact that 37% of the US population is categorised as “non-white”). Only two black female directors could be identified – Selma’s Ava DuVernay and Belle’s Amma Asante – with only seven trans characters in total.”

Secondary Source 4: This source is useful as it looks at an example of the ‘power’ of television in Australia to ‘normalise’ whiteness through the absence of ethnic diversity on television. Australian Television and ethnic diversity. The Bachelorette and Bachelor http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/dating/bachelor-matty-j-says-channel-10-are-to-blame-for-lack-of-diversity/news-story/3b1a96e9fd2f45a1d261061d8b01f54a

Step 2: Consider what is the best way for you to communicate your information in Part A in a visual and written infographic.

Infographic: a visual representation of information or data, e.g. as a chart or diagram. View the following TED Talk by Australian social researcher Mark McCrindle from September 2013, TEDX Canberra. In the TED talk he talks about ‘Bringing Research Data to Life’. The most useful section 0-6 min. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Nz5x1jiMc

When viewing the talk, consider the following points: 1) What do you think M.McCrindle means when he says ‘research is best when it paints a picture. When it is research that tells a story. When it is research you can see. When it is visual. When it is research that makes sense, with the eyes and the heart’.

2) What is a social researcher? How are you a social researcher in this task?

3) How are we moving from an information age, to an infographic age?

4) How do graphics inspire a response and action from individuals? Think about some visual symbols in your everyday life that you decode each day.

Go back to your information from Step 1. Think about HOW you can communicate this information in meaningful written and visual format?

The suggestion would be to hand-draw a plan in your books and then consider using a online infographic/design platform such as:

• Canva: https://www.canva.com/ or • Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/

To see examples of existing infographics visit: • McCrindle Research: http://mccrindle.com.au/research-resources#infographics

Remember: your infographic needs to be no larger than an A4 page. All images and text need to be large enough to read when printed in A4 format.

Part 1: Infographic Sample (reproduced with student permission)- A Level Sample

Part 2: Infographic Sample (reproduced with student permission)- A Level Sample Continuities and changes in the nature of ‘dating’ in Australian society from the 1950s until today. Dating is the progression in a romantic relationship, where two people meet with the aim of evaluating the other’s suitability as a partner in an intimate relationship or marriage. Dating in Australian society has significantly altered and diversified over time, from the 1950’s until today. There have been many advancements in technologies, specifically online dating and reality television series that depict and challenge gender stereotypes within dating. In the 1950’s, gender had a significant role in shaping the normative behaviors and cultural practices surrounding dating. Meaning that the male was often viewed as the source of authority and power, as well as the breadwinner in the relationship. The stereotype for women had feminine, girly, nurturing and emotional qualities. Both stereotypes were generated and reaffirmed in western media in the form of television, music and films from the 1950s. Technology is an influential factor in the progression and social and cultural change in dating since the early 2000s, especially through online dating platforms such as Tinder and eHarmony. Dating in the 1950’s was centered around the interactions of persons at the micro and meso levels of society and culture. Couples would meet through mutual friends, family, arranged marriages, school and work. According to the study: The Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating, since the beginning of the 2000’s, the most common way of meeting a partner is from online, the other methods of meeting a partner are declining (Josue Ortega, Philipp Hergovich, 2017). Therefore, online dating is of a positive impact as the study proves that if it were not for online dating, some couples would have never interacted or met. However, dating through contemporary communication technologies is somewhat negative in relation to the possibility of a lack of online authenticity in relation to one’s identity. E.g. catfishing. Dating is relevant through the macro level of society and culture with the rise in popularity of dating and marriage reality television shows such as Married At First Sight, First Dates, the Bachelor and Bachelorette. These entertaining television shows are often dramatised and give Australia a narrowed perception of romance, dating and marriage. For example, although the television show Married At First Sight captured the attention of 1.379 million viewers, only one couple, Alex and Zoe have stayed successfully married. Some speculate that location barriers will not be an issue in dating, as you can meet up with someone from across the world, with new developments in travel and increased globalisation. However, the nature of dating in Australia has changed extensively since the 1950’s, largely driven by the alteration of human interactions brought about by new communication technologies.

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