Australia’s essence is ethnically diverse. A provocative euphemism would support Australia as an egalitarian society and to say otherwise would be concealing the truth. By critically analyzing sociological theories together with implemented public policies and societal worldviews towards racism and ethnicity, this essay analyses Australia’s social fabric and competing historical perspectives of racial and ethnic diversity and discernment.
Derived from the French word égal, egalitarianism, is a mythical ideology (Kolb, 2008, p. 661). In view of that, the egalitarianism doctrine favours western industrial societies as equals with equivalent …show more content…
The sociological paradigm, corresponds to “adaption, goal attainment, integration and latency” (Abercrombie, Hill, & Turner, 2000, p. 354). Primarily, four functional social structure requirements identifying issues of intolerance cemented within Australia’s social system. Webers analysis accounted for multi-dimensional views of social conflict developing from societal status groups. These status groups have since been used to distinguish people to be included or excluded by groupings conceivably fabricated on race and …show more content…
11) contesting neo-racism and racial prejudices based on cultural difference. Nowhere has this tension been more prevalent than in the contrasting views alluding to racism and ethnicity than that of the Labor government between 1991 and 1996 and again in 1996 to 2007 by the Liberal government. Australia, in the past decade has seen political ethnic values decline with the existence of racist attitudes. However, public opinion towards multiculturalism is contradictory with strong levels of support for cultural diversity co-existing with anti-multicultural attitudes in both Sydney and Melbourne, Australia 's two main immigrant-receiving