Exploring Intersections of Identity in Modern Society

The sociology course offers a comprehensive exploration of various societal issues, organized weekly to provide deep insights and foster understanding. Week 1 introduces the concept of 'race' in everyday life, highlighting its sociological implications through works like "Racism without Racists." Week 2 delves into gender equality, emphasizing male engagement in reducing violence against women. The course continues with discussions on race relations, migration's impact on local communities, and hate crime dynamics, referencing Asquith's insights. Week 4 explores refugee integration challenges in Australia, while subsequent weeks address sexuality through life-history interviews of transsexual individuals, and the intersection of class and sexuality in the UK. Each topic is supported by scholarly references, ensuring a well-rounded academic exploration.

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Working with Cultural Differences
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WEEK 1: CULTURE
The book we are going to read during this week informs us about culture, brings our
social life into shape and how the culture is shaped by the society. Students will gain an
understanding of the sociology of religion through this book. They are going to obtain this
knowledge by looking at stories, arts, ideas, beliefs, religious practices and even media from a
sociological perspective. Examples of cultures that exist in different countries during different
periods will increase the students’ global knowledge. The student will gain a stronger sense of
appreciation of societies and their cultures from this text (Asquith, 2014). The information will
aid them to beat ignorance that leads to cultural misunderstandings and conflicts. The students
will be equipped enough that they will live their lives wisely and professionally.
WEEK 2: CULTURE & IDENTITY
Identity, this new terminology in the recent years has been a subject of debate in the
studies of culture by many and different platforms. All from sexual identity, political, national,
diaspora to identity crisis has been debated by many. Identity and difference study how these
debates experience challenges and bring out their use to cultural questions of nationality, gender,
race, sexuality, and health. In this modern world, the importance of difference and identity is
shown at different levels; personal, local and global levels. Those involved in the illustration
show the different ways in which identities are developed for and by people and bring to
question the concepts of the fixity of difference and identity (Flood & Howson, 2015). Different
illustration from social philosophers, activist, essentialists and expansive approaches are
researched. The complexity of the modern identities, including known discourses of motherhood,
body, and health are also explored. Various deep debates of those common areas of disputed
identities are combined with theory in identity and difference. It will be really important for the

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researchers and students in social theory, cultural studies, and popular culture if selected readings
and specific activities are provided.
WEEK 3: DISCOURSE POWER KNOWLEDGE
Home care organizations have been forced to restructure their functions in the system of
health care delivery at the same time carrying out trials on heavy changes in services agency
structures and operations. These changes and trials have been activated by the motivating force
of managed care and cost management. New methods of care deliverance like managed care
reimbursement are now increasingly being used as opposed to the old fee-for-service per-visit
reimbursement models. Most certified medic-care home health organization which has survived
using the old models for a long time are now relying on the new models more. The books seek
research the intersection of the two fast-growing sectors of healthcare, managed care and home
health sectors (Asquith, 2014).
The research is carried out at this crucial time. The environment that is around the change
to managed care from the traditional reimbursement is unpredictable and is changing rapidly.
Plans the organizations are adopting to deal with this unpredictability together with HHA
administrators’ understanding of the two effects of managed care are described. Even though
agency characteristics inhibit variations, there are more similarities opposed to variations among
HHAs (Griswold & Wohl, 2015). The research’s conclusion shows that HHAs are encouraged to
become similar to environment and market pressure within the deeply HNO-penetrated
communities. This happens regardless of whether or not the HHAs possess managed care
contracts.
WEEK 4: THEORISING WHITENESS

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The course examines the standings of white knowledge traditions, identities, and cultures
within the discussions about native affairs. The learners will have an introduction to the main
theories and thinkers in this area of critical race and whiteness theory. From there, together we
will use the knowledge in the day to day experiences and popular culture. Students will have a
chance to grow their knowledge of politics identity that is strongly tied with discussions in the
field of native knowledge, post-colonialism, and imperialism (Giles, 2016). They will have this
chance during at the concept and application stage of the native studies major.
WEEK 5: WHITENESS, IDENTITY, RACE(ISM)
The study researches how white teachers told children issues about national identity and
diversity of cultures. They relied on qualitative research. The children were 8 to 12 years of age
students and their teachers from four Austrian primary schools. The four schools possessed
different cultural, ethnical and racial populations. Despite an existence of implicit and explicit
views that raised the different levels of analysis among the students, the teachers often showed
an Austrian national identity, white race and an Anglo-Austrian cultural identity. Three main
points of view were noticeable that the teachers used to talk about cultural diversity and national
identity; quasi-critical approach, cultural essentialism, and race elision (Harris, 2013).
WEEK 6: INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA
By bringing out these statements, it should be known that the native Australian is not just
mare ‘minority group’. We are the very original and the first people in this country and therefore
the inequality and various challenges we face is just a modern reflection of the past, how we
were treated, and a clear fact of the persistence of systemic discrimination. In 1967, Australian
nationals demanded fair treatment of the native Australians. The government and all Australians
should indeed respect honor and acknowledge that mandate today.

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WEEK 7: IMMIGRATION
Migration has transformed from being at the periphery of concerns sociologically to its
center. In their book, Stratton & Trinder (2014) placed their focus on the manner in which
migration has been experienced and responded to in Australia. The book is mostly aimed at
assembling the most recent developments in gaining knowledge on the sociology of
WEEK 8: POLICY, PRACTICE & CURRENT ISSUES
Circumstances force the refugees to leave their homes to start afresh in a different place.
This paper will focus on the challenges faced by those Austrians who were putting their efforts
on projects aimed at helping the refugees relocate as a strategy. This discussion is based on an
evaluation project which took two years. The project studied two refugee locations in the
communities of Swan Hill and Warrnambool in Victoria, Australia. Refugee communities are
often faced with problems of health and unemployment, and therefore a relocation program is
important with the opportunity and risk they present (Dandy, Dunn, Jetten, Paradies, Robinson &
Ziaian, 2017). The government and the entire community at large have to recognize the
importance of these relocation programs. They should also know the consequences of the
absence of these programs to the whole country.
WEEK 10: GENDER & FEMINISM
All around the globe, there are increasing campaigns aimed at including the male child
and men in curbing violence against women. These efforts to reduce the violence against women
now require that men must engage. Although there are numerous dangers of doing this, there is
also a strong feminist rationale for such activity (Bonnett, 2017). This paper gives a review of the
various activities that involve men in the effort of reducing violence against women. This article

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also points out the various strategies that work, that men can use effectively to end violence
against women.
WEEK 11: SEXUALITY
In this article, it examines a life-history interview carried out in Sydney in the 1980s. It is
about a transsexual woman. The interview talks to the interviewer, a transsexual woman. She had
decided that she would take a different path with politics about concepts, solidarity, and
commitment to feminism (Robinson & Davies, 2014). She wanted the world to view transsexual
women as just normal people.
WEEK 12: CLASS
This paper deals with the injustices and inequalities coming up at the intersection of
sexuality and class. There have been recent changes in the UK laws creating the possibility for
lesbian, transgender, gay and bisexual people to live normal legitimate lives. The experience of
having to live with this new liberal sexual scope is likely to be debated by the social class
(Meyer, 2017). Using two types of research works and with the help of Bourdieu’s
conceptualization of class and queer theory and then using this new class people, I illustrate the
importance of focusing on the interaction between class and the sexual identity to understand the
unequal ways these people may try the transformations in the sexual life.

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References
Asquith, N.L., 2014. A governance of denial. The Routledge International Handbook on Hate
Crime, p.174.
Bonnett, A., 2017. The enchanted path: magic and modernism in psychogeographical walking.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Dandy, J., Dunn, K., Jetten, J., Paradies, Y., Robinson, L. and Ziaian, T., 2017. 16 Intercultural
Relations in Australia. Mutual Intercultural Relations, p.333.
Harris, A., 2013. Young people and everyday multiculturalism (Vol. 13). Routledge.
Flood, M. and Howson, R. eds., 2015. Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality. Cambridge
Scholars Publishing.
Giles, H. ed., 2016. Communication accommodation theory: Negotiating personal relationships
and social identities across contexts. Cambridge University Press.
Griswold, W. and Wohl, H., 2015. Evangelists of culture: One Book programs and the agents
who define literature, shape tastes, and reproduce regionalism. Poetics, 50, pp.96-109.
Meyer, D., 2017. “One Day I’m Going to be Really Successful”: The Social Class Politics of
Videos Made for the “It Gets Better” Anti-Gay Bullying Project. Critical Sociology,
43(1), pp.113-127.
Robinson, K.H. and Davies, C., 2014. Doing sexuality research with children: Ethics, theory,
methods and practice.
Stratton, M. and Trinder, B., 2014. Twentieth century industrial archaeology. Taylor & Francis.

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