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Core: Social and Cultural Continuity and Change
Quick questions on Social and cultural continuity and change in the HSC Society and Culture core
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What is drivers of continuity?Show answer
Continuity persists through socialisation, tradition, institutions and shared values. Families, schools, religion and the media transmit norms from one generation to the next. Rituals and commemorations (Anzac Day in Australia, the tea ceremony in Japan) reinforce a sense of shared identity and keep cultural memory alive. Legal and political institutions provide stability and resist sudden reversal.
What is drivers of change?Show answer
Change is driven by both internal and external forces. Internal drivers include generational change, social movements, new ideas and demographic shifts. External drivers include globalisation, migration, technology, environmental pressure and contact between cultures. In Japan, rapid post-war industrialisation and Westernisation transformed work and family life, yet respect for hierarchy and group harmony (wa) endured.
What is australian examples to deploy?Show answer
Use concrete, current Australian evidence to anchor comparison. Multiculturalism since the 1970s shows change through migration while older Anglo-Celtic institutions persist. The growing recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures (NAIDOC Week, Welcome to Country, the Uluru Statement from the Heart of 2017) shows the oldest continuous cultures on earth maintaining continuity while Australian society changes around them. The shift to remote and flexible work after 2020 shows technology-driven change reshaping everyday life.
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