Week 10: Cultural variation

Week 10, how much of the semester's material is culturally specific, and where this course sits next to existing frameworks

3 May 2027

Outline#

• civil inattention, proxemics and third-place norms as culturally specific, not universal laws
• the Australian Curriculum’s personal and social capability framework, and how this course differs from it
• what “being specific about your own default” buys you as an observer
• reading before Week 11: norms that shift with relationship and life stage