William W Bostock
Biographic Data
| ID | 213980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W Bostock |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bostock |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTOCK W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7486-7553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Psychic Capital: Its Role in Maintaining Quebec and Other Francophone Identities
This article will demonstrate the value of Boulding’s concept of psychic capital in explaining the survival of Quebec and other North American francophone communities where French is the first language. Psychic capital holds that while in an economic unit there will be a store of financial capital which is necessary for the continued existence of an economic unit, also in a human community there is a need for a reserve of psychic capital that is …
Psychological Aspects of Cultural Sustainability: Several Case Studies
The sustainability of the culture of a community is not just a question of its intrinsic value; it can also be a question of life and death. Physical health is closely related to mental health, which consists in a level of collective mental state, such as elation, depression, energy or apathy. The mental state is related to a sense of coherence, as Antonovsky called it, and culture is the major source of the sense of coherence, in the form of ide…
The Quiet Revolution in Australian Higher Education
Quiet revolution is a term that was used to describe the fundamental transformation of Quebec society in the 1960s: a profound and permanent process that took place with very little violence or other outward signs of resistance. Australia's higher education sector also underwent a profound transformation in the 1990s, also with strangely little protest or even debate, so that it could also reasonably be called a quiet revolution. This paper exami…
Language grief: A ‘raw material’ of ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict is defined as a breakdown of accommodation within a state, and five major types of explanation have been advanced: exploitation, relative deprivation and inclusion/exclusion, entrepreneurship/mobilization, identity and insecurity. Another important factor that can complement these explanations is grief over actual or anticipated language loss. Language grief can over time resolve itself, as it has done in Nova Scotia, Indonesia or…
Supplying Australia's Role-Modelling Needs: Once Britain and Usa, Now Canada
The 'practical Dutch', and a 'people on the move: The Flemish, and their joint language policy∗
Education and American ideals
The commissioner of official languages: A Canadian response to a situation of ethnolinguistic cleavage
On elections, voting and participation: The origins of the South Australian DLP: A documentary note
To summarise, there were five interesting features of the election: (i) the size of the first preference movement from the major parties to the Australian Democrats; (ii) the unexpected lack of any significant swing to Labor in the two‐party preferred vote; (iii) the notable uniformity of the results from state to state; (iv) such swing to Labor as did occur was mainly in seats already held by Labor and in urban areas; and (v) the results demonst…
The Cultural Explanation of Politics
Dr. Emy on Australian political culture
Language grief: A ‘raw material’ of ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict is defined as a breakdown of accommodation within a state, and five major types of explanation have been advanced: exploitation, relative deprivation and inclusion/exclusion, entrepreneurship/mobilization, identity and insecurity. Another important factor that can complement these explanations is grief over actual or anticipated language loss. Language grief can over time resolve itself, as it has done in Nova Scotia, Indonesia or…
The commissioner of official languages: A Canadian response to a situation of ethnolinguistic cleavage
On elections, voting and participation: The origins of the South Australian DLP: A documentary note
To summarise, there were five interesting features of the election: (i) the size of the first preference movement from the major parties to the Australian Democrats; (ii) the unexpected lack of any significant swing to Labor in the two‐party preferred vote; (iii) the notable uniformity of the results from state to state; (iv) such swing to Labor as did occur was mainly in seats already held by Labor and in urban areas; and (v) the results demonst…
Dr. Emy on Australian political culture
The Cultural Explanation of Politics
On elections, voting and participation: The origins of the South Australian DLP: A documentary note
To summarise, there were five interesting features of the election: (i) the size of the first preference movement from the major parties to the Australian Democrats; (ii) the unexpected lack of any significant swing to Labor in the two‐party preferred vote; (iii) the notable uniformity of the results from state to state; (iv) such swing to Labor as did occur was mainly in seats already held by Labor and in urban areas; and (v) the results demonst…
The commissioner of official languages: A Canadian response to a situation of ethnolinguistic cleavage
Education and American ideals
Supplying Australia's Role-Modelling Needs: Once Britain and Usa, Now Canada
The 'practical Dutch', and a 'people on the move: The Flemish, and their joint language policy∗
Language grief: A ‘raw material’ of ethnic conflict
Ethnic conflict is defined as a breakdown of accommodation within a state, and five major types of explanation have been advanced: exploitation, relative deprivation and inclusion/exclusion, entrepreneurship/mobilization, identity and insecurity. Another important factor that can complement these explanations is grief over actual or anticipated language loss. Language grief can over time resolve itself, as it has done in Nova Scotia, Indonesia or…
The Quiet Revolution in Australian Higher Education
Quiet revolution is a term that was used to describe the fundamental transformation of Quebec society in the 1960s: a profound and permanent process that took place with very little violence or other outward signs of resistance. Australia's higher education sector also underwent a profound transformation in the 1990s, also with strangely little protest or even debate, so that it could also reasonably be called a quiet revolution. This paper exami…
Psychological Aspects of Cultural Sustainability: Several Case Studies
The sustainability of the culture of a community is not just a question of its intrinsic value; it can also be a question of life and death. Physical health is closely related to mental health, which consists in a level of collective mental state, such as elation, depression, energy or apathy. The mental state is related to a sense of coherence, as Antonovsky called it, and culture is the major source of the sense of coherence, in the form of ide…
Psychic Capital: Its Role in Maintaining Quebec and Other Francophone Identities
This article will demonstrate the value of Boulding’s concept of psychic capital in explaining the survival of Quebec and other North American francophone communities where French is the first language. Psychic capital holds that while in an economic unit there will be a store of financial capital which is necessary for the continued existence of an economic unit, also in a human community there is a need for a reserve of psychic capital that is …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)