SACE Stage 2 Society and Culture study guide
SACE Stage 2 Society and Culture · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Society and Culture is a South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) subject offered at Stage 2, the final stage of senior secondary schooling in South Australia. Students explore and analyse the interactions of people, societies, cultures and environments, learning how social, political, historical, environmental, economic and cultural factors shape different societies, and how people function and communicate within and across cultural groups. The subject is designed for students who want to understand contemporary society and build skills, values and understandings that support effective participation in it - and, as the SACE Board puts it, the ability to influence their own futures. Stage 2 Society and Culture is available as a 10-credit subject (code 2SOR10) or a 20-credit subject (code 2SOR20); a parallel Stage 1 version exists as 1SOR10 and 1SOR20. The SACE Stage 2 Society and Culture study guide has 2 sections and about 783 words.
01School Assessment: Building and Defending Your Own Investigation
School assessment in Society and Culture is where you design and carry out your own investigation, then report it under controlled conditions. The concepts you must control are: the topic and focus question (narrow, researchable, ethically defensible); method choice and justification (questionnaires, interviews, observation, content analysis, secondary data) matched to the question rather than to convenience; sampling (who, how many, how selected, and what that selection lets you claim); ethical protocols (informed consent, confidentiality, anonymity, right to withdraw, storage of data, and sensitivity when researching minors or marginalised groups); primary versus secondary sources and how each is evaluated for reliability and bias; and analysis - coding, categorising and interpreting data against the focus question rather than merely describing it.
395 words, about 2 min02External Assessment: Arguing Under Exam Conditions
The external component tests whether you can apply the course's concepts and skills to unfamiliar material and construct a reasoned argument quickly. Expect stimulus-based questions and extended responses.
388 words, about 2 min