166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society

Usually 25 points of first-year politics.

An introduction to the study of social movements and the general issues raised by the problem of social change and political conflict. How and why do political changes occur? If social movements did not exist, would societies need to invent them? The subject examines the development and political arguments of the principal Australian social movements in the past 30 years and the reactions to them: the green movement; the Aboriginal movement; the women's movement; the homosexual liberation movements; the peace movement; multiculturalism and refugee action groups; the labour movement and the anti-corporate globalisation movement.