William Tyler
4 Papers
39 Citations
William Tyler is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Middle range theory & Social change. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications.
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Postmodernity and the Aboriginal Condition: the Cultural Dilemmas of Contemporary Policy
TL;DR: This paper explored the post-modern dilemmas of developing a sociology of Fourth World peoples, which is manifested in the fragmentation or decentring of the sites and discourses, global and local, through which a contemporary Aboriginal identity may be grounded.
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Race, crime and region: the socio-spatial dynamics of Aboriginal offending
TL;DR: In this paper, a probit analysis of rates of Aboriginal offending across Australian jurisdictions reveals a close relationship between levels of seriousness of crime and levels of cultural stability and socioeconomic stress, with rural and remote regions showing higher levels both of serious crime and of punitive response.
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Book Reviews : THEORIES OF SOCIAL CHANGE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL. Raymond Boudon, translated by J.C. Whitehouse. Polity Press, 1986
TL;DR: Two papers are particularly difficult to fit into the general mould, loose as that is as mentioned in this paper, and neither of them fit into a general mold, and neither has a bibliography.
Aboriginality and Socioeconomic Attainment in Australia's Northern Territory
TL;DR: Aboriginality occupies an ambiguous position within the dominant discourse of Australian stratification systems as mentioned in this paper and there has been little serious attempt to explore the complex causal processes which position them within the European social structure.