D: Unit 3 AOS 1 - Australian Indigenous Culture

Question 1

Assimilation Policy (1950s-60s)

Answer 1

A former Australian Indigenous policy which said Indigenous people “not of full blood” should be absorbed into the wider population

Question 2

Awareness

Answer 2

To have knowledge or understanding of a representation

Question 3

Cultural Relativism

Answer 3

The practice of judging a culture by its own standards

Question 4

Cultural Suppression

Answer 4

The domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or economic or technological superiority

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

The entire way of life of a group within society, comprising of material and non-material elements

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

Question 7

Institution (social)

Answer 7

Groups, beliefs or patterns of behaviour within society that are involved in the socialisation of individuals and groups

Question 8

Integration Policy

Answer 8

Short-lived policy implemented in 1965 that attempted to “Westernise” traditional AI culture

Question 9

Material Culture

Answer 9

All the tangible objects, creations and spaces of a group or society.

Question 10

Noble Savage

Answer 10

Refers to an idealised concept of the uncivilized man who symbolises the innate goodness of one not exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization

Question 11

Non-material culture

Answer 11

The non-physical creations and ideas of a society which are transmitted across generations

Question 12

Perception

Answer 12

How one views or feels about a representation

Question 13

Protection and Segregation Policy (1800s – 1950)

Answer 13

Collection of policies which separated indigenous people from others based on the belief that they were part of a dying race

Question 14

Reconciliation

Answer 14

Recognising injustice and making change in a society to redress human rights violations and to restore harmony and justice

Question 15

Representation

Answer 15

Refers to the creation in any medium of aspects of social reality such as people, objects, events, cultural identity and other tangible concepts.

Question 16

Sociological Imagination

Answer 16

A term coined by C. Wright Mills with the framework provided by Evan Willis that describes the sociological approach to analysing issues.

Question 17

Australian Indigenous Culture

Answer 17

The entire way of life of Indigenous Australians, inclusive of both material and non-material culture.