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SASociety and Culture

Module 3: Globalisation and Social Change

7 dot points across 7 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

Is global culture eroding local identities or creating new hybrid ones?

Analyse how cultural globalisation affects local cultures and identities, including homogenisation, hybridisation and cultural resistance in Australia.
How cultural globalisation spreads ideas and culture worldwide, the debate between cultural homogenisation and hybridisation, cultural resistance, and the effect on local identity in Australia.
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How is economic globalisation reshaping work and livelihoods in Australia?

Analyse how economic globalisation and technological change are reshaping work, employment and livelihoods in contemporary Australian society.
How economic globalisation connects markets and labour, the shift from manufacturing to services, the rise of the gig economy and automation, and the consequences for work and security in Australia.
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How are environmental challenges driving social change and shaping futures?

Analyse how environmental challenges and sustainability are driving social change and shaping future societies in Australia and globally.
How environmental challenges interact with society, the concept of sustainability, the social dimensions of climate change, competing responses, and how environmental issues drive social change in Australia.
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Why and how do societies change?

Explain the causes and processes of social change, the role of social movements, and the tension between change and continuity in Australian society.
What social change is, its main drivers such as technology, social movements and globalisation, the difference between evolutionary and revolutionary change, and how change is balanced against continuity in Australian society.
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How do social movements organise to create social change?

Analyse how social movements form, organise and use collective action to bring about social change in Australian society.
What social movements are, why they form, the tactics of collective action, how they succeed or fail, and the role of movements as agents of social change in Australia.
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How is digital technology transforming social life, relationships and power?

Analyse how digital technology is transforming communication, relationships, participation and power in contemporary Australian society.
How digital technology drives social change, its effects on communication and relationships, the digital divide, surveillance and data power, and the benefits and risks for Australian society.
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What is globalisation and how does it connect societies?

Explain globalisation and its economic, cultural, political and technological dimensions, and evaluate its effects on Australian society.
What globalisation means, its economic, cultural, political and technological dimensions, the difference between interconnection and interdependence, and a balanced evaluation of its effects on Australian society.
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