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Unit 4: Community, social movements and social change
Quick questions on The Australian environmental movement: VCE Sociology
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What is origins of the movement?Show answer
The modern environmental movement emerged from the 1960s and 1970s as concern grew about pollution, conservation and the impact of industrial development. In Australia it built on earlier conservation efforts and gained momentum through high-profile campaigns to protect specific places. It is a classic new social movement: it organises around values and quality of life rather than economic class, and it is decentralised and broad-based.
What is using this as your case study?Show answer
Structure your detailed study clearly: state the origins in 1960s and 1970s conservation concern, classify it as a new social movement, describe its strategies through the Franklin campaign and later climate action, identify the structural and cultural change achieved, and evaluate its extent and limits. Contrasting the clear Franklin outcome with the slower, contested progress on climate gives you a balanced, evaluative argument that is exactly what the dot point rewards.
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