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SOCG502 Community and Responsibility

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Workshops, seminars, field visits.

Community and responsibility: foundations and definitions, support of home and of school, responsibility to whom, from whom and with whom and responsibility to self. Ideologies: dominant and subordinate ideologies, elites, subcultures and countercultures, politics of homelessness, educational lobbying, radical theories, life-chances and equality issues. Lifestyles: basic Christian communities and Australian lifestyles, urban potentials and family lifestyles of the future. Working in Australia: patterns of employment, comparison to trends in western industrial nations, community programs, careers and job training and alternative job creation programs. Professional responsibility and accountability to consumers and consumer evaluation of human services. Reconciliation: concept of reconciliation as a sacrament, ethics and the responsibility of the Christian ethos, pastoral initiatives and programs for the family and in the school community.

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