A local council is funding a Sociology research project about experiences of belonging and exclusion among Sikh Australians in a regional Victorian town. The researcher plans to recruit participants through the gurdwara, a Sikh youth sports club and a community Facebook group. Data will be collected using a short anonymous online survey followed by optional small focus groups held in a council meeting room. The researcher also intends to include two short quotations from participants in a public report to council, and to present the findings at a community forum attended by council staff, local media and community members.
Some potential participants are aged 16–17. Several community leaders have offered to help by recommending ‘good participants’ and asking people to take part. The researcher does not speak Punjabi and plans to use an interpreter for the focus groups.
b. Apply ethical methodology by proposing two actions the researcher should take to ensure informed consent for participants aged 16–17 in the focus groups. Explain why each action is necessary.
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In this unit, students explore expressions of culture and ethnicity within Australian society in two different contexts – Australian Indigenous cultures, and ethnicity in relation to migrant groups. Students critically examine the historical suppression and increasing public awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, and investigate ethnicity as a key sociological category, considering how ethnic identities are formed, experienced, and shaped by various forces.
Students examine the sociological concepts of race and ethnicity, the process of othering, and the theory of cultural hybridity. They investigate Australia’s ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, factors influencing belonging and inclusion, and the ethical implications of research into ethnic groups, including a case study of a specific ethnic group.
how an ethical methodology was or could be applied in the study of this ethnic group.
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