Introduction Australia is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations in the world with over 6 million Australian residents born overseas, 25% of the population with a language background other than English and over 75% identifying with an ancestry other than 'Australian'. ... Some say schools should reflect the values of the 'dominant culture' but McLeod poses the essential questions - What is the dominant culture in Australia? ... (p. 420) McLeod's main contention is that there are many layers to consider when addressing the issues of inequalit...

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He then goes on to compare the extinction of big game in Australia and New Guinea to that in the Americas, then talks about early tools. ... This is what Diamond calls a natural experiment in history. ... The Eurasian societies were able to master food production at a faster pace than the societies of Africa and Australia. ... says is essential in comparing history. ... Raymond Grew, author ofThe Case for Comparing Histories,? ...

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By creating a contrast between the values and attitudes of this dominant society of the particular time in history - and Ellen's dependence upon it for structure and stability - and settings within the text which contain societies who do not conform with such social restraints, the novel creates an even greater contrast between Ellen's response to her comfortable environment, and that to each of the uncomfortable environments she is positioned to encounter during her journey. When Ellen has been shipwrecked ashore the Australian mainland, she is faced with a society of people who exh...

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The social function of mythology therefore is relative to many periods in history. ... Australian writer Richard Neville has identified Xena as "just a big, brassy, pseudo-Greek legend waylaying everything in her path, especially men". ...

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Sociology Essay How useful is the concept of elite' for understanding the distribution of power in either Britain or the United States? Introduction In America perhaps only race is a more sensitive subject than the way we sort ourselves out in the struggle for success. The eminent sociologist Rob...

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Tom Nairn stated that ""Nationalism" is the pathology of modern developmental history, as inescapable as "neurosis" in the individual, with much the same essential ambiguity attaching to it, a similar built-in capacity for descent into dementia, rooted in the dilemmas of helplessness thrust upon most of the world and largely incurable." ... Australia: Longman. ...

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Marx analysed religious rhetoric: The social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling and an oppressed class, [...] declare all vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original sin and other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed. [...] preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, dejection. (142-3)* Thus his conclusion that "religion's role in history has been to offer a divine justification for the status quo" (142)*. ...

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Culture CULTURE What is culture? Culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, and ceremonies, among other elements. The existence and use of culture depends upon ability possessed by humans alone. This ability has been called the capacity for rational thought. The term symboling has been proposed as a more suitable name for the mental ability of humans, consisting of assigning things and events certain meanings that cannot be grasped with the senses. ...

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