Psychological Sense of Community: An Australian Aboriginal Experience

Autor/inn/en	Bishop, Brian; Colquhoun, Simon; Johnson, Gemma
Titel	Psychological Sense of Community: An Australian Aboriginal Experience
Quelle	In: Journal of Community Psychology, 34 (2006) 1, S.1-7 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-4392
DOI	10.1002/jcop.20079
Schlagwörter	Indigenous Populations; Psychological Patterns; Community; Relationship; Semi Structured Interviews; Social Structure; Language; Family Relationship; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sinti und Roma; Wechselbeziehung; Sozialstruktur; Languages; Sprache; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	Sense of community (SOC) is central to an individual's psychological wellbeing (Sarason, 1974). Eleven participants, mainly from the North West of Western Australia, took part in semistructured interviews investigating Australian Aboriginal notions of community and SOC. Five key themes emerged from the data. These included: kinship structure, language groups, skin groups, education, and knowledge. It is argued that the themes of kinship structure, language groups, and skin groups described the Aboriginal social structure whereas the themes of education and knowledge described the maintenance of a SOC. The impact of this conclusion on the theoretical understanding of a psychological SOC was discussed using analogies to Tonnies' (1957) distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10