The name is absent

(Dawson^ 1969; Gault, 1969), motivation (Duncan, 1969; Milliken,
1969).

Such studies sought to make cross-cultural comparisons. A
few investigators examined the psychological correlates of identity/
identification (Berry, 1970; Cawte, Bianchi and Kiloh, 1968;
Nurcombe and Cawte, 1967). However, the issues raised by these
researchers concerned problems of psychological adjustment to
white society rather than the construction of Aboriginal identity.
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1.33 Sociology

Non tradition-oriented people were the subject of Barwick’s
(1963) study, 'Regional affiliation and group identity among
Aboriginal migrants in Melbourne', which traced the connection of
urban Aboriginal people with kinship groupings.

Gale's 1964 study was concerned with assimilation. In her
' later study (1972:46) there was an allusion to identity and to
the fact that Aborigines had developed a consciousness of their own
separate identity.

Barwick and Gale were both pioneers in this field, isolating
the issue of identity which was to become central to Aboriginal
concerns in the late seventies and both arguing that part-Aboriginal
society had a structure that differentiated it from white society -
that is, part Aboriginal society cannot be said to form a sub-cιhlture
but has a distinct world of meaning of its own.

1.34 SociologyZEducation

In the field of education, research reports from Dunn and Tatz, (1969);
Hart, (1974); Kearney, et.al., (1976); Lippmann, (1973a); Penny, (1964, 1975).
were directed towards teachers, or teacher-educators.

Sommerlad (1976) stressed the need in policy-making in
education to take into account the life-styles of tradition-oriented

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