CST120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participant Observation, Australia Day, Invented Tradition
CST 120- WEEK 2 Lec/ - Australia Day
Essay
- every claim you are making requires a statement, author, polls, observation, participant
observation
- get the concepts right, refer to dictionary, and text.
- proof read
- argument, move people in position of thinking, starts by you think this ( x )but should think
this (y).
- benefits of this new thinking, has it changed and why, examples
- Australia day question- talk about aboriginal past and how we have been ignoring it now in
celebrations
Questions to ask
What is its role, what does it mean and why even have it?
Encountering what Williams refers to as culture, we tell ourselves what it
means to be Australian
Culture is the su of all availale desriptios of which society makes sense of
i ad reflet their oo experiees
We are often told what is an Australian identity and what to do, and it would
be un-Australian to not do it. All forms of communication have this function of
identifying who you are as a person (Inter-{pellation} to name)
No matter where you are in the world if you identify as Australian, Australia
day has some form of meaning to you, positive or negative. It is an inventive
tradition by Hobsbawn, hence Australia day.
It becomes surprising how attached people are to this day, even though it
has’t ee aroud for very log, eve datig ak to the foratio of
Australia. What kind of cultural values might be in play?
What is tradition? – set of practices governed by a set of rules and practices,
to reinform values and norms as well as behaviour which create a set of
continuities from the past that we do not question. We are all surrounded by
traditions invented and commercial purposes. Australia day being an inventive
tradition, the goal is to make some aspects of the apparently changing present,
seeig they are’t hagig.
Rapid change
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Document Summary
Cst 120- week 2 lec/ - australia day. Every claim you are making requires a statement, author, polls, observation, participant observation. Get the concepts right, refer to dictionary, and text. Argument, move people in position of thinking, starts by you think this ( x )but should think this (y). Benefits of this new thinking, has it changed and why, examples. Australia day question- talk about aboriginal past and how we have been ignoring it now in celebrations. Encountering what williams refers to as culture, we tell ourselves what it means to be australian (cid:862)culture is the su(cid:373) of all availa(cid:271)le des(cid:272)riptio(cid:374)s of which society makes sense of i(cid:374) a(cid:374)d refle(cid:272)t their (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) experie(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863) We are often told what is an australian identity and what to do, and it would be un-australian to not do it. All forms of communication have this function of identifying who you are as a person (inter-{pellation} to name)
