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CHAPTER XXVI
RESEARCH FINDINGS
26.1 Introduction
The aim of the study was to map the ’worlds’ in which Aborigines
locate their identity.
The three areas for investigation were set out (p. 37)t namely
(i) interaction between psychological reality and psychological
models
(ii) interaction between social structure and the ’worlds'
in which Aboriginal people find their identity
(iii) interaction between the self and society.
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26.2 Research findings
26.21 Area lɪ : Interaction between psychological reality and
psychological models
The study has demonstrated the paramount importance of theorizing
in building a world of meaning. Theorizing was shown to exert
a 'realizing potency' (Chapter XIII, Chapter XIX).
The study has shown (ChaptersVIII-IX) that legislation and
policy of governments before 1967 were contexted into the conceptual
machinery of nihilation, which was used as the means of managing
the symbolic universe of the Aboriginal people.
Interaction with negative typifications inherent in legislation
and policy continues to result in typifications of Aborigines that
are negative (p. 359).
In the seventies the psychological model, (i.e. the model
produced by theorizing), of the 'world' of Aborigines, as it was
projected by the 'theorizing* of white society changed dramatically.
See p. 37 for theoretical basis for Area 1.
2Chapter VIII-IX.
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