Jones, Frank Lancaster

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JONES, Frank Lancaster

JONES, Frank Lancaster. Australian, b. 1937. Genres: Race relations, Sociology. Career: Professor and Head Dept. of Sociology, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1972 (Research Assistant in Demography, 1958; Research Scholar in Demography, 1959-62; Research Fellow in Sociology, 1963-66; Fellow in Sociology, 1966-69; Sr. Fellow in Sociology, 1969-72; Acting Head, Dept. of Sociology, 1970-72). Research Officer, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1962; Executive Member, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, 1965, 1970-73; Ed., Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 1970-72, 1990-92. Publications: A Demographic Survey of the Aboriginal Population of the Northern Territory, with Special Reference to Bathurst Island Mission, 1963; Dimensions of Urban Social Structure: The Social Areas of Melbourne, 1969; (with L. Broom) A Blanket a Year, 1973; (with Broom) Opportunity and Attainment in Australia, 1976; (co-author) Investigating Social Mobility, 1977; (co-author) The Inheritance of Inequality, 1980; (with P. Davis) Models of Society, 1986; Sex and Ethnicity in the Australian Labour Market: The Immigrant Experience, 1992. Address: Sociology Program, Australian National University, P. O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.

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