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Tests the tenability of socio-linguistic theory of 'elaborated' and 'restricted' coding orientations at the tertiary educational level and in an Australian socio-cultural context. Differences in overall coding orientation for working-class and middle-class groups; Influence of social structures and role relationships; Extra-verbal qualification of intent and shared meanings.

The article examines the relationship between religion and primitive culture. Throughout the history of the human race the religious impulse has been always and everywhere present as one of the great permanent forces that makes and alters man's destiny. There are remarkable resemblances of the different "hunting cultures" of North America and Siberia, of Australia and South Africa with that of Paleolithic Europe. Underlying them all there is a common religious foundation, a common attitude to life, which is the key to the interpretation of the culture and which if not primitive is at least the earliest human religion. For primitives belonging to the hunting culture are more religious than the people of the higher cultures, since the essential religion attitude--the sense of dependence on mysterious external powers--is stronger with them than it is in the case of civilized societies. There still exists among the hunting people widely spread customs and ceremonies designed to secure the favor of the animal spirits before hunting, or to placate the beasts that have been killed.

The article presents information on kinship, mobility and community among Part-Aborigines in rural Australia. The setting of the presented study is the "Far West" of New South Wales, Australia, a region of semi-and plains. In or around most Far Western townships, one finds a number of people who are known, locally and officially as Aborigines. The so-called "tribes" of the Far West were often distinguished only by their use of a particular named language or dialect, however, the approximate territories of these linguistic groups are known and "tribal" identification gives some indication of local origin during the early period. Far West Aborigines distinguish two main classes of humanity, European and Aboriginal, concerning each of which they have fairly well developed stereotypes. Aborigines are deemed to have a common culture in which open-handedness, is valued, and any form of exclusiveness or superiority disapproved as an attempt to ape white people. The marked lack of interest in outsiders is an important factor in the Aborigines' lack of political unity.

The lag in the development of rural sociology in Australia is analyzed in terms of Australia's history, geographical location, and class structure. There are indications that the time is ripe for a more extensive development of sociology and progressive education in Australia. By means of comparing Australia and the United States, the trend for a sociology adapted to Australia is charted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information on sociology as field of education in Australia and New Zealand. There are now five out of the 17 Australian and three out of the six New Zealand universities or colleges which have granted sociology an independent place in their curricula. Most of the remaining universities plan to establish sociology departments in the future. A few already offer sociology courses as part of the allied subjects such as anthropology, education, political science, and psychology. Whenever and wherever sociology is introduced, it seems to become an instant success with Australian and New Zealand students. They have, generally, a healthy interest in their own fast-changing urbanized societies. The first-year enrollments in sociology in such universities as New South Wales (Sydney), Monash (Melbourne), Victoria (Wellington), Canterbury (Christchurch), New England (Armidale), and University of Queensland (Brisbane), run in the hundreds. However, the problem is not just one of availability of courses.

The article presents information about the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand. The association was founded in October 1963, to promote the development of sociology in these countries and has already gained substantial support from those professionally concerned with sociology or allied disciplines. It holds conferences on various aspects of sociology. It had sponsored the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology and fosters the formation of local branches. It aims to become a forum for the discussion of all issues relevant to sociology and sociologists. The next conference of the association would be held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, from August 22-24, 1965. Membership of the association is open to all those who hold a university degree in sociology or allied subjects or who are engaged in teaching sociology or allied subjects in Australia or New Zealand at a university or university college. Members are entitled to attend conferences and to participate in other activities of the association and receive a free copy of each issue of the journal.

The article introduces a new journal "Anthropological Forum: An International Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Comparative Sociology," edited by Ronald M. Berndt. This journal is being published by the Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. The articles are of high quality and the printing and get-up are pleasing to the eye. The editor says that he is confident that the journal will establish itself as one of the leading sociological journals of the world in a short period of time.