50138 Community, Culture and the Social

This subject focuses on the formal, semi-formal and informal groupings that structure our lives. Society is relationships in families, kin, friendships, communities, markets, workplaces (both paid and unpaid) and a range of other institutions. How do customs, rituals, traditions, lore and law contribute to identity, belonging, exclusion and marginalisation? What affects the accumulation and dispersion of social and cultural capital, the development of social trust and distrust, and how do these relate to current debates on what makes societies civil and uncivil? What are the conflicts between the rights and responsibilities of citizenship? Students explore the exigencies of daily life and social relationships in widely varied settings: the urban, the local, the rural and regional in indigenous, diverse cultural and ethnic settings, both within and outside Australia.

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus