Challenging claims of cultural deprivation as a career-long goal

This article examines two psychological interventions with Australian Aboriginal children in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The first involved evaluating the cognitive maturation of Aboriginal adolescents using a series of Piagetian interviews. The second, a more extensive educational intervention, used a variety of quantitative tests to measure and intervene in the intellectual performance of Aboriginal preschoolers. In both of these interventions the viability of the psychological instruments in the cross-cultural encounter created ongoing ambiguity as to the value of the research outcomes. Ultimately, the resolution of this ambiguity in favour of notions of Aboriginal ‘cultural deprivation’ reflected the broader political context of debates over Aboriginal self-governance during this period.

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Cultural Deprivation and Academic Achievement

The Journal of Educational Research ◽

10.1080/00220671.1969.10883893 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 62 (10) ◽

pp. 435-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sukhendra Lal Chopra

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Cultural Deprivation

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Adolescence: Cultural Deprivation, Poverty, and the Dropout

Review of Educational Research ◽

10.2307/1169789 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 463 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David E. Hunt

Keyword(s):

Cultural Deprivation

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Social Expectations and Cultural Deprivation

The Journal of Negro Education ◽

10.2307/2294580 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 136 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ralph H. Hines

Keyword(s):

Social Expectations ◽

Cultural Deprivation

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Racial Relations Theories and Sport: Suggestions for a More Critical Analysis

Sociology of Sport Journal ◽

10.1123/ssj.6.3.212 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 212-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 89

Author(s):

Susan Birrell

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Comprehensive Model ◽

Sport Sociology ◽

Racial Relations ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Deprivation ◽

Bias And Discrimination

This paper suggests that sport sociology may be ready to move from a generally atheoretical approach to “race and sport“ to a critical analysis of racial relations and sport. Four theoretical groups are identified from the writing of racial relations scholars: bias and discrimination theories, assimilation and cultural deprivation theories, materialist and class-based theories, and culturalist or colonial theories. In the past, studies of race and sport have fit within the former two theories. A cultural studies approach that blends the latter theories is advocated in order to move toward the goal of critical theory and develop a comprehensive model for analyzing the complex of relations of dominance and subordination simultaneously structured along racial, gender, and class lines.

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