448
Agree Not
Strongly Agree Sure
ft, O, ft.
Disagree
β,
4>
Disagree
strongly
o,
*6
Maj ority
support
ft,
"O
Aboriginal response (N=93} 19.1 56.2 21.3 2.2 1.1 75.3
Non-Aboriginal response (N=289) 39.1 - 47.8 9.7 2.4 1.0 ^agreθi.9
25.23 (ii) Value of working hard to get benefits later Schedule II,
Statement 45 has also been discussed1
While clearer support was given by non-Aborigines for working
hard now to get benefits later, nevertheless there was strong
support from Aborigines also. It cannot be said that there was
evidence that Aboriginal people are not future-oriented, particularly
with regard to money.
25.24 Definitions of success
From interviews conducted in constructing the schedules, it
became evident that for the Aboriginal people different things
constituted success for different people. An understanding of
the meaning given to success is important in building up the socially
constructed meanings of the Aboriginal world, and in seeking to
establish whether there is a specifically Aboriginal view of
success.
Various definitions of success offered by Aboriginal people
in preliminary interviews were incorporated into Schedule II in
order to investigate how Aboriginal people saw success, and whether
or not their views differed from those of non-Aboriginal people.
25.24 (i)
Hypothesis
It was hypothesized that Aboriginal views of success would
be non-materialistic in orientation.
ɪsee p. 404.