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2. 'And I Would Ask Myself, What's Being Gay Got to Do with This Anyway?' Constructions of Queer Subject Positions in Student's Stories
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Francis, Dennis A.
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In this paper, the author explores some of the issues associated with teaching about compulsory heterosexuality and schooling in an undergraduate sociology programme. Using a novel approach to gathering data, the article analyses the stories students submitted about themselves or others who were counter normative in terms of gender and sexuality in school. Informed by the work of Ahmed and Foucault, this article explores what kinds of gendered and sexualised subject positions become possible through the stories of students, and how are these subject positions interpellated and constituted relationally? Despite progressive legislation, queer activism and the significant visibility of gender and sexuality counter-normative identities in the South African media, the analysis highlights that students' position school attending queer youth as: (1) stereotyped caricatured subjects; (2) objects of fear; and (3) subjects of violence. These subject positions serve as straightening devices that interpellate queer school attending youth as unfamiliar, not belonging and unworthy and therefore requiring change. Insights from this article can inform the research and practice which is pivotal to addressing cisheteronormativity not only in schools but cultural ideas, norms and practices too.
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- 2023
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3. Exploring Students' Reading Profiles to Guide a Reading Intervention Programme
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Boakye, Naomi A. N. Y.
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There have been a number of studies on reading interventions to improve students' reading proficiency, yet the majority of these interventions are undertaken with the assumption that students' reading challenges are obvious and generic in nature. The interventions do not take into consideration the diversity in students' reading backgrounds and the specific nature of the challenges. Thus interventions may not address students' specific reading needs. This paper reports on a study that explored students' reading profiles as a needs analysis for an intervention programme to improve the reading proficiency of first-year Sociology students. The aim was to investigate the students' reading backgrounds to determine their specific reading needs. A Likert scale questionnaire with an open-ended section was used to explore the students' reading profiles. The Likert scale questions were analysed quantitatively, while the open-ended questions were analysed qualitatively. In addition, a regression analysis was conducted to determine the correlation between students' use of strategies and their self-efficacy levels. The findings show that a number of students have little reading experience, use inappropriate reading strategies, and have low self-efficacy and poor reading habits. In addition, students identified comprehension, language, vocabulary, length and density of Sociology texts as factors compounding their reading challenges. This paper discusses the implications of these findings in designing an appropriate reading intervention programme for this cohort.
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- 2017
4. A Needs Analysis for a Discipline-Specific Reading Intervention
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Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah and Mai, Magdaline Mbong
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This paper reports on a needs analysis that sought to explore students' reading challenges as an initial step in designing an appropriate reading intervention programme for first-year Sociology students. The aim of the paper is to suggest conditions for the production of an effective reading intervention programme by determining the needs of the students in the first-year Sociology class. A survey using an open-ended questionnaire was used to explore students' reading challenges. The responses were analysed using content analysis. The analysis showed a variety of learner needs and revealed that most of the students have difficulty in reading their first-year Sociology texts. Comprehension was the main challenge, but other specific areas such as vocabulary, length of texts, language, and affective issues such as motivation and interest were also mentioned. The findings show that this cohort of first-year Sociology students had reading challenges that involve cognitive, language and affective issues. Based on the results of the needs analysis an intervention programme that addresses cognitive, language and affective issues is recommended for this cohort of students.
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- 2016
5. Polarity in Sociology of Knowledge: The Relationship between Disciplinarity, Curriculum, and Social Justice
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Shalem, Yael and Allais, Stephanie
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This paper examines two influential views within the sociology of knowledge, specifically in literature examining relationships between knowledge, curriculum, and social justice, located in the South African context of extreme inequality and poverty. The first emphasizes the role of disciplines in creating criteria of powerful knowledge, arguing that knowledge must be evidence-based, generalizable, and revisable. The second argues for the importance of the social origins of knowledge for reasons both of strengthening knowledge and creating curricula that foster confidence in young scholars. We then draw on what we see as the strongest claims of each view and explore the value they bring to thinking about knowledge and curriculum debates raised by community of practitioners within three disciplines in the social science -- economics, education studies, and history. Our brief consideration of these disciplines reveals that different disciplines face specific challenges which transverse, in different ways, the polarity which characterizes the debate so far. Strong aspects of each view feature in the development of each of the three disciplines, some in negative ways. This is an interesting finding, which demonstrates that principled debates couched in epistemological terms, when applied to specific disciplines, do not remain as a simple binary.
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- 2019
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6. 'Moral Ecology' and 'Moral Capital': Tools towards a Sociology of Moral Education from a South African Ethnography
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Swartz, Sharlene
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Research and pedagogy in the field of morality and moral education has long been dominated by philosophical and psychological disciplines. Although sociological studies and theorising in the field have not been absent, it has been limited and non-systematic. Drawing on a study that investigated the lived morality of a group of young South Africans growing up in the aftermath of Apartheid and in the townships of Cape Town, this paper surveys the historical contribution made by sociologists to the study of morality and introduces two sociological notions of importance to moral education research and practice: "moral ecology" and "moral capital". Employing Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory it describes the moral life as an ecology of interconnecting systems, complex antinomies, diverse codes, multiple positionings, discordant processes and competing influences, over time and on multiple levels. Moral capital, draws on Bourdieu's work on capitals and is described in two ways. First, as a dialectic, such that young people living in poverty identify how being "good" can be translated into economic capital, which in turn enables them to remain "good". Second, it asks, what are the necessary elements of moral capital that young people need in order to be good and so attain the economic future to which they aspire? The paper concludes by noting how a sociology of moral education contributes to understanding the relationship between poverty and morality, including the social reproduction of morality; and its relevance for moral education research and practice. (Contains 2 figures and 4 notes.)
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- 2010
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7. Persisting Inequalities: Childhood between Global Influences and Local Traditions
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Buhler-Niederberger, Doris and Van Kreiken, Robert
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This article analyses the central themes running through the collection of papers in this special issue of Childhood, which were all given as papers at the XVI Durban World Congress of Sociology, 23-29 July 2006. These themes encompass the ways in which global processes of social change combining modernity with tradition have become important for both the perception of childhood and for children's real lives. They also include the ways in which those processes intertwined with social inequalities of gender, generation and socioeconomic status among children and between children and other age groups. The article goes on to provide an outline of the ways in which more general theoretical concerns in the sociology of childhood globally are related to local situations, to a variety of practical settings, to the conceptual concerns in different sociological fields and other social science disciplines in South Africa, Ethiopia, Taiwan, Germany, Sweden, and Italy.
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- 2008
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8. Student Identities, and Researching These, in a Newly 'Racially' Merged University in South Africa
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Pattman, Rob
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The paper reports on research conducted by third-year sociology students into student identities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. This university was formed as a result of a merger between two formerly "racially" defined universities. The research, comprising interviews and observation and taking place at the University's Howard College (the formerly white University of Natal), was envisaged as a way of enabling the students to apply practically theories of identity, and as a means of generating local resources. In spite of the recent merger, "race" emerged as a major influence on student identifications, affecting associations on campus, what people did, where they went to in their break times and their attitudes to others. The paper investigates racialised groupings and identities on campus, how they are forged in relation to each other and students' emotional investments in them. It draws, also, on the researchers' own experiences, as black, white and Indian male and female students, of engaging in this research, and the issues and problems they encountered, and reflects on some of the methodological implications of students researching students and "race." (Contains 2 notes.)
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- 2007
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9. A Comparison of Two Approaches to Developing In-Service Teachers' Knowledge and Strategies for Teaching Nature of Science
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Vhurumuku, Elaosi and Chikochi, Andrew
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This paper reports the results of a study that compared two approaches to developing in-service teachers' subject matter knowledge and strategies for teaching nature of science. A treatment post-test only quasi-experimental research design was used. One group of in-service teachers (n = 15) was taught using what is called a capsular approach. In this approach in-service teachers were first taught elements of the history, the philosophy, the sociology of science and scientific literacy and then introduced to strategies for teaching nature of science. Another cohort of in-service teachers (n = 11) was taught using what is called a heuristic approach. In this approach, in-service teachers were not taught about the history of science, the philosophy of science, the sociology of science and scientific literacy, but only about the basic tenets of nature of science and strategies for teaching nature of science. Quantitative and qualitative data from the post-treatment was gathered through a Likert questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and analysis of lesson plans. Statistical, typographical and interpretive comparative analysis of this data reveals that the capsular approach was more effective compared with the heuristic approach. Recommendations are made for explicitly developing teachers' pedagogical content knowledge for nature of science.
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- 2017
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10. Submission of Papers for Publication.
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *PERIODICALS , *ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. , *MASS media , *SERIAL publications , *AUTHORS , *EDITORS - Abstract
The article presents guidelines for submitting papers for publication in the "Society in Transition," the journal of the South African Sociological Association. Three paper copies must be submitted. An electronic copy of the final version of the manuscript can be sent by email to the scientific editor. The first page should contain the following: title of the article, the author's name, address, email address and the abstract. Each article must be preceded by a short abstract and a short list of five important keywords should be provided.
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- 2005
11. Unpacking (White) Privilege in a South African University Classroom: A Neglected Element in Multicultural Educational Contexts
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Swartz, Sharlene, Arogundade, Emma, and Davis, Danya
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Multiculturalism currently aims for the political accommodation of difference instead of the subversion of the resulting privileges of difference. In the South African context such a distinction is especially important since the economic and symbolic subjugation of the majority of Black South Africans continues despite political transformation, and is exacerbated by an unwillingness to reflect on privilege and inequality. Drawing on Biko and Soudien's critique of multiculturalism and vision for anti-racist education, this paper describes a classroom activity set for 164 nationally and culturally diverse second year sociology students at a university in Cape Town, South Africa. The activity tasked students to reflect on texts by Peggy McIntosh and Khaya Dlanga (one canonical, the other contextual) and reports on these students' nuanced understandings of personal biography, experiences of privilege and self-reflexivity that connects personal experience to social structure and historical contexts. It concludes by offering modest implications for moral education in a multicultural university classroom.
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- 2014
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12. 'And I would ask myself, what's being gay got to do with this anyway?' Constructions of queer subject positions in student's stories.
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Francis, Dennis A
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LGBTQ+ youth ,ACTIVISM ,HETEROSEXUALITY ,STUDENTS ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In this paper, the author explores some of the issues associated with teaching about compulsory heterosexuality and schooling in an undergraduate sociology programme. Using a novel approach to gathering data, the article analyses the stories students submitted about themselves or others who were counter normative in terms of gender and sexuality in school. Informed by the work of Ahmed and Foucault, this article explores what kinds of gendered and sexualised subject positions become possible through the stories of students, and how are these subject positions interpellated and constituted relationally? Despite progressive legislation, queer activism and the significant visibility of gender and sexuality counter-normative identities in the South African media, the analysis highlights that students' position school attending queer youth as (1) stereotyped caricatured subjects, (2) objects of fear and (3) subjects of violence. These subject positions serve as straightening devices that interpellate queer school attending youth as unfamiliar, not belonging and unworthy and therefore requiring change. Insights from this article can inform the research and practice which is pivotal to addressing cisheteronormativity not only in schools but cultural ideas, norms and practices too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Service delivery frameworks as instruments of citizen empowerment: A tale of two experiences, India and South Africa.
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Kariuki, Samuel and Tshandu, Zwelakhe
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PUBLIC administration ,PUBLIC sector ,PARTICIPATION ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper presents a comparative assessment of South Africa and India's service delivery improvement strategies, challenges, successes and lessons learnt in advancing their service delivery reform programmes. The cardinal argument in the paper is that the public administrative systems adopted and inherited in the post-democratic epochs in India and South Africa were incapable of meeting the service delivery needs of their respective citizens. They epitomised the traditional and hierarchical public administrative systems that were the object of reforms in the 1990s. The reform initiatives also coincided with global reforms on public administration systems taking place under the aegis of the new public management framework. A key feature of new public management is its application of private-sector ideas to the public sector, such as individual accountability. The paper further undertakes a comparative review of service delivery improvement frameworks of South Africa (Batho Pele) and India (Sevottam) in relation to their objectives and implementation modalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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14. Bayesian generalized linear mixed modeling of Tuberculosis using informative priors.
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Ojo, Oluwatobi Blessing, Lougue, Siaka, and Woldegerima, Woldegebriel Assefa
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TUBERCULOSIS ,BAYESIAN analysis ,MEDICAL informatics ,DATA analysis ,EDUCATIONAL attainment - Abstract
TB is rated as one of the world’s deadliest diseases and South Africa ranks 9th out of the 22 countries with hardest hit of TB. Although many pieces of research have been carried out on this subject, this paper steps further by inculcating past knowledge into the model, using Bayesian approach with informative prior. Bayesian statistics approach is getting popular in data analyses. But, most applications of Bayesian inference technique are limited to situations of non-informative prior, where there is no solid external information about the distribution of the parameter of interest. The main aim of this study is to profile people living with TB in South Africa. In this paper, identical regression models are fitted for classical and Bayesian approach both with non-informative and informative prior, using South Africa General Household Survey (GHS) data for the year 2014. For the Bayesian model with informative prior, South Africa General Household Survey dataset for the year 2011 to 2013 are used to set up priors for the model 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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15. Homicide pattern among adolescents: A national epidemiological study of child homicide in South Africa.
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Mathews, Shanaaz, Abrahams, Naeemah, Martin, Lorna J., Lombard, Carl, and Jewkes, Rachel
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VIOLENCE against women ,HOMICIDE ,TEENAGE girls ,TEENAGERS ,YOUTH ,ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
Background: Large numbers of young people die yearly due to homicide, but little is known about homicide during adolescence. Research primarily focuses on youth violence among young men and masks important gender-related factors inherent in the adolescent age group. Although young women are less likely to be victims of homicide, violence against women is an important form of violence experienced during adolescence. In this paper, we describe the prevalence of and gender difference in adolescent homicide in South Africa in 2009. Methods: We conducted a retrospective national mortuary-based study to identify all child homicides (boys and girls < 18 years) in 2009 in a proportionate sample of mortuaries. Victim, perpetrator and crime data were collected in three phases: cases were identified from the mortuary register, the autopsy report and from police interviews. In this paper we focus on the adolescent group, aged 10 to 17 years. Findings: We identified 674 (95% CI: 520–823) adolescent homicides for 2009, with more male (520) than female (154) homicides. This gender disparity increased as children aged, with the male homicide rate 27.9/100 000 population (95% CI: 20.3–35.5), nearly 5 times the female rate (4.5:1) of 6.5/ 100 000 population (95% CI: 4.7–8.2) in older adolescents (15–17 year old). Adolescent males were significantly more likely (61.2%) to die in a public space compared to female adolescents (39.3%) but more adolescent females (48.4%) died at home compared to adolescent males (32.9%). Adolescent females (42.1%) were mainly killed by a family member or intimate partner while adolescent males were predominantly (58%) killed by an acquaintance. Conclusion: We found a distinct gender pattern for adolescent homicide in South Africa. This pattern appears to be driven by gender norms that support violence. South Africa requires an investment in developing evidence informed interventions to reduce violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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16. Wrapping Johannesburg.
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Dixie, Christine and Sey, James
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CITIES & towns ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper takes the form of a ‘performative’ dialogue, a recounting of scenes, which alternate, in the mode of a cinematic montage, with academic analysis of the interfaces between boxing, art, and space. In his book Body and Soul: Notebooks on an Apprentice Boxer (2004), sociologist Loïc Wacquant mixes three genres: analytic sociology, depictive ethnography, and short story. He argues that he used this unorthodox methodology ‘to make the reader simultaneously feel and understand how boxers are “gripped” by their craft and viscerally tied to it’. Similarly, in this paper, the overlapping voices of its two authors engage in both performative, creative and intellectual ways with the critiques and social rituals surrounding boxing, ultimately finding that an understanding of boxing as an epistemological encounter gives rise to interesting ways to think through the relationships between art and urban space itself. The paper ranges widely over each author’s personal experience of boxing, analyses of specific artworks both ancient and modern, and an analysis of the psychogeography of urban space, and in particular, Johannesburg. The form of the paper, as it incorporates narrative experience (embodiment) and analytic mode, can be seen as a text that re-enacts the ‘performance’ of boxing and art-making in which the traditional opposition between the two is integrated, if not suspended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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17. Early Resumption of Sex following Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision amongst School-Going Males.
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George, Gavin, Govender, Kaymarlin, Beckett, Sean, Montague, Carl, and Frohlich, Janet
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CIRCUMCISION ,HIV infections ,MEDICAL care ,EPIDEMICS ,SEXUAL intercourse - Abstract
Voluntary medical male circumcision is an integral part of the South African government’s response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Following circumcision, it is recommended that patients abstain from sexual activity for six weeks, as sex may increase the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission and prolong the healing period. This paper investigates the resumption of sexual activity during the healing period among a cohort of school-going males in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The analysis for this paper compares two groups of sexually active school-going males: the first group reported having sex during the healing period (n = 40) and the second group (n = 98) reported no sex during the healing period (mean age: 17.7, SD: 1.7).The results show that 29% (n = 40) of young males (mean age: 17.9, SD: 1.8) who were previously sexually active, resumed sexual activity during the healing period, had on average two partners and used condoms inconsistently. In addition, those males that engage in sexual activity during the healing period were less inclined to practice safe sex in the future (AOR = 0.055, p = 0.002) than the group of males who reported no sex during the healing period. These findings suggest that a significant proportion of young males may currently and in the future, subject themselves to high levels of risk for contracting HIV post circumcision. Education, as part of a VMMC campaign, must emphasize the high risk of HIV transmission for both the males their partners during the healing period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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18. Sociology research in contemporary South Africa.
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Alexander, Peter, Basson, Lauren, and Makhura, Prudence
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,PERIODICALS ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIAL scientists - Abstract
Research, with a capital 'R', is a subject of considerable concern within South African ruling circles. There's not enough of it, and it's not the right kind, or so the argument runs. Recognising the importance of the material conditions of the researchers and the need for a bottom-up approach to developing research priorities, this paper focuses on the state of sociology research in South Africa today. It demonstrates that, over the past twelve years, a marked increase in the output of masters and doctoral graduates has been accompanied by a decline in the level of completed research by qualified sociologists. In terms of publications, there has been a significant increase in the proportion produced by women, but a negligible change in the number by black scholars. The paper rejects pessimistic assessments of the state of South African sociology. It concludes by arguing that the discipline should place itself at the centre of an integrated and engaged social science by drawing diverse strands together at a local level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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19. DECOLONIZING SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIOLOGY.
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Mangcu, Xolela
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DECOLONIZATION ,UNIVERSITY & college administration ,UNIVERSITY & college admission ,AFFIRMATIVE action programs - Abstract
On 14 June 2014 the Council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) voted to change racebased affirmative action in student admissions. The Council was ratifying an earlier decision by the predominantly White University Senate. According to the new policy race would be considered as only one among several factors, with the greater emphasis now being economic disadvantage. This paper argues that the new emphasis on economic disadvantage is a reflection of a long-standing tendency among left-liberal White academics to downplay race and privilege economic factors in their analysis of disadvantage in South Africa. The arguments behind the decision were that (1) race is an unscientific concept that takes South Africa back to apartheid-era thinking, and (2) that race should be replaced by class or economic disadvantage. These arguments are based on the assumption that race is a recent product of eighteenth century racism, and therefore an immoral and illegitimate social concept. Drawing on the non-biologistic approaches to race adopted by W. E. B. Du Bois, Tiyo Soga, Pixley ka Seme, S. E. K. Mqhayi, and Steve Biko, this paper argues that awareness of Black perspectives on race as a historical and cultural concept should have led to an appreciation of race as an integral part of people's identities, particularly those of the Black students on campus. Instead of engaging with these Black intellectual traditions, White academics railroaded their decisions through the governing structures. This decision played a part in the emergence of the #RhodesMustFall movement at UCT. This paper argues that South African sociology must place Black perspectives on race at the center of its curriculum. These perspectives have been expressed by Black writers since the emergence of a Black literary culture in the middle of the nineteenth century. These perspectives constitute what Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls a shared "text of Blackness" (Gates 2014, p. 140). This would provide a practical example of the decolonization of the curriculum demanded by students throughout the university system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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20. Pigmentocracia: classe, raça e gênero no sistema de bem-estar social sul-africano.
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Barbosa Filho, Evandro Alves, de Souza Vieira, Ana Cristina, and Rocha, Solange
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SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL systems ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL classes ,LITERATURE reviews - Abstract
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- 2019
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21. “I am still negative”: Female sex workers’ perspectives on uptake and use of daily pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention in South Africa.
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Eakle, Robyn, Bothma, Rutendo, Bourne, Adam, Gumede, Sanele, Motsosi, Keneilwe, and Rees, Helen
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HIV ,PRE-exposure prophylaxis ,HIV prevention ,SEX workers ,CONCEPTION ,HIV infections ,PILOT projects - Abstract
Women remain highly vulnerable to HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, with female sex workers (FSWs) facing some of the highest rates of HIV. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has the potential to reduce new infections among populations at highest risk and end-user perspectives of actual use in ‘real-world’ settings are critical to informing PrEP implementation. This paper presents findings from serial in-depth interviews (IDIs) conducted with FSW participants during the course of the Treatment And Prevention for Sex workers (TAPS) Demonstration Project in South Africa, exploring the lived experiences and perceptions of taking up and using PrEP. This research provides insight into risks and responsibilities facing FSWs perceived as prominent drivers in taking up and using PrEP, how PrEP was adopted to mitigate risk or ameliorate realities, and the characteristics of PrEP most valued, all of which are critical to consider in scale-up. Overall, distrust in the existence and/or efficacy of PrEP affected the motivation of women to come to the clinic and to maintain use. As one of the first reports of PrEP use among FSWs outside of a clinical trial setting, this research shows that it will be important to ensure accurate, relevant, and widespread messaging in communities to generate demand and support for PrEP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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22. Prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and associated factors among HIV positive educators: Findings from the 2015/6 survey of Health of Educators in Public Schools in South Africa.
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Zungu, Nompumelelo Precious, Mabaso, Musawenkosi Lionel, Kumalo, Faith, Sigida, Salome, Mlangeni, Lungelo, Wabiri, Njeri, and Chasela, Charles
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NON-communicable diseases ,DISEASE prevalence ,HIV infections ,TEACHER health ,PUBLIC schools - Abstract
Introduction: In many sub-Saharan African countries, confronting the dual epidemic of HIV and NCDs is a public health priority especially in high HIV burden countries such as South Africa. Evidence shows that poor health as a consequence of NCDs and HIV among the workforce increases absenteeism and leads to decrease in productivity. However, the prevalence of these co-occurring chronic conditions and associated factors is unknown in the educator workforce. Improved understanding has implications for their management and wellbeing of educators. This paper reports the prevalence of selected NCDs and associated factors among HIV positive educators in South Africa using the 2015/6 survey of Educators in Public Schools in South Africa. Methods: This was a second-generation surveillance undertaken among educators in selected public schools in all nine provinces in South Africa. A multi-stage stratified cluster design with probability proportional to size sampling was used to draw a random sample of schools. Factors associated with presence of NCDs were determined using a multivariate backward stepwise logistic regression analysis. Results: A total of 1 365 schools were sampled within which 21 495 (85.5%) educators were interviewed. Out of 2691, HIV Positive educators that responded to the questions on NCDs, 36.9% reported having NCDs. The most commonly reported NCDs were high blood pressure (17.4%), and stomach ulcers (13.5%). The increased odds of reporting the presence of NCDs was significantly associated with being female than male [aOR = 1.5: 95% CI (1.1–1.9), p<0.002], age 45 to 54 years [aOR = 1.8: 95% CI (1.4–2.2), p = p<0.001], and age 55 years and older than those 18 to 24 years [aOR = 2.7: 95% CI (1.8–3.9), p<0.001). The decreased odds of reporting the presence of NCDs was significantly associated with not being absent from school for health reasons [aOR = 0.7: 95% CI (0.6–0.9), p = 0.003]. Conclusion: NCDs care and active screening should be an integral part of HIV programmes including interventions such as prevention, treatment, care and support amongst public school educators in SA. The education department will need to invest in health promotion intervention programmes to prevent and mitigate the negative impact of NCDs and HIV on the sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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23. Ambiguous subjects: Obstetric violence, assemblage and South African birth narratives.
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Chadwick, Rachelle
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OBSTETRICS ,BLACK people ,CHILDBIRTH ,DISCOURSE analysis ,FEMINISM ,INTERVIEWING ,POVERTY ,RACE ,SEX distribution ,SOCIAL classes ,SOCIOLOGY ,VIOLENCE ,WOMEN'S health ,NARRATIVES ,ETHICS - Abstract
Obstetric violence is gaining recognition as a worldwide problem manifesting in a range of geopolitical contexts. While global public health attention is turning to this issue, there has been a lack of theoretical engagement by feminist psychologists with the phenomenon of obstetric violence. This paper contributes to the literature on obstetric violence via a feminist social constructionist analysis of “marginalized” and low-income South African women’s narratives of giving birth in public sector obstetric contexts. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2012 with 35 black, low-income women living in Cape Town, South Africa, the analysis focuses on obstetric violence as a relational, disciplinary, and productive process that has implications for the construction of women’s subjectivities and agency during childbirth. The findings focus on relational constructions of violence and agency in women’s narratives, including (a) the performance of docility as an act of ambiguous agency and (2) resistant bodies and modes of discipline. Framed within a Foucauldian approach to power and using the concept of assemblage, I argue that obstetric violence needs to be conceptualized as more than isolated acts involving individual perpetrators and victims. Instead, the analysis shows that obstetric violence functions as a mode of discipline embedded in normative relations of class, gender, race, and medical power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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24. THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGIST AFTER HALF-A-CENTURY OF STUDYING SCIENCE.
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Collins, Harry
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIAL scientists ,SOCIOLOGY ,HIV infections ,THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
In this article the author discusses the role of the sociologist after half-a-century of studying science. He explores the problem with misconceptions about human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment in South Africa. He provides an overview of the paper "Third Wave of Science Studies," which he and fellow sociologist Rob Evans wrote. He also discusses the new programme called Studies of Expertise and Experience.
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- 2013
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25. Exploring children and young people's relationships across Majority and Minority Worlds.
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Punch, Samantha and Tisdall, E. KayM.
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SOCIAL conditions of children ,STREET children ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including the new sociology of childhood, "child-headed households" in Zambia, and childhood studies on the relation of "street children" in Cape Town, South Africa to the street, their home communities and to their family.
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- 2012
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26. Social justice, care and developmental welfare in South Africa: a capabilities perspective.
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Hassim, Shireen
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POLITICAL science ,PRACTICAL politics ,EQUALITY ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
One of the paradoxes of the democratic project in South Africa is that the combination of political empowerment, organised constituencies of poor people and increasing social sector spending has made minimal impact on increasing equality. Despite an overall macroeconomic framework that emphasises fiscal restraint, social welfare spending has increased in the past 14 years, and dramatically so since 2003. Almost one in four South Africans receives some or other form of grant, and the majority of recipients are women. Indeed, South Africa is regularly described as the developing world's largest and most generous welfare state. I address the extent to which gender inequalities are reduced through public sector spending, asking the question: what is the optimal relationship between social policy and the intrinsic democratic goals of equality, social justice and citizenship? Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach, the article argues that a focus on social sector spending alone is inadequate to address questions of social justice. Instead, I draw attention to the normative assumptions, discursive environment and institutional context in which social policy is elaborated and implemented. I argue that, in a context in which there is relatively poor infrastructural capacity in the state to ensure that service delivery takes place in fair, consistent and egalitarian ways, households and communities act as shock absorbers of state failures and women's gendered burdens increase, despite formal commitments to gender equality. While women appear to have gained from political empowerment, women politicians did not effectively leverage their position in the state to promote pro-poor policies or to build coalitions to challenge the watering down of early commitments to reducing gender inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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27. Sociologia cognitia: a note on recent concerns in sociology in South Africa.
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Oloyede, Olajide
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIETIES ,APARTHEID ,DISCIPLINE ,POSITIVISM ,MARXIST analysis - Abstract
There are, of recent, expressed concerns, albeit small in number, about the failure of sociology to 'engage with the wider society'. Implicit and explicit in the concerns is the suggestion that sociology is no longer as exciting as it was during the period of the struggle against apartheid. The period of apartheid was taken as one of the 'rise' of sociology because of sociology's engagement with the political issues of the day. This paper argues that the assumed 'rise' and 'fall' of the discipline in South Africa can better be characterised as the visibility of sociology in the 'public'. It is argued that the decades 30s. 40s and 50s were decades of success for sociology just like the 60s, 70s and early 80s that some point to as the period of 'rise' of the discipline The earlier decades saw the ascendancy of positivism, and sociology of that period contributed in great measure to the construction of apartheid, which was subsequently dismantled with contributions from sociology, specifically, the Marxist sociology. If there is therefore a 'fall' of sociology, it is the 'fall' of a theoretical perspective in sociology. However, given the call for a 'critical edge' in the discipline, it is suggested that such an edge would need to start from the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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28. The South African government and the application of co-optive power.
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de Jager, Nicola
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POWER (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGY ,DECENTRALIZATION in government ,SOUTH African politics & government - Abstract
The question of power remains critically important. South Africa provides a salient example of the relevance of soft or co-optive power. This paper investigates the South African government's use of two forms of co-optive power, namely, institutional centralisation and dispositional centralisation. The first refers to the centralising of the state apparatus as evidenced in the reformed Presidency. The second is highlighted in state-society relations as civil society is relegated to the role of implementer of state policy and its political space as an agent of accountability is severely constrained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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29. An analysis of retrospective and repeat prospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from the South African Birth to Twenty Plus cohort.
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Naicker, Sara N., Norris, Shane A., Mabaso, Musawenkosi, and Richter, Linda M.
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CHILD abuse ,INTIMATE partner violence ,CAREGIVERS ,MATURATION (Psychology) ,EMOTIONAL state - Abstract
Most studies rely on cross-sectional retrospective reports from adult samples to collect information about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) to examine relationships with adult outcomes. The problems associated with these reports have long been debated, with only a few studies determining their reliability and validity and fewer still reaching consensus on the matter. This paper uses repeat prospective and retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences from two respondent sources in the South African Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort to explore agreement and concordance in the prospective reporting of ACEs by caregivers and respective children as adolescents and then as young adults. The findings demonstrate little overall agreement between prospective and retrospective accounts of childhood experiences, with 80% of kappa values below the moderate agreement cutoff (k = .41). The highest levels of agreement were found between prospective and retrospective reporting on parental and household death (kappas ranging from .519 to .944). Comparisons between prospective caregiver reports and retrospective young adult reports yielded high concordance rates on sexual and physical abuse and exposure to intimate partner violence (91.0%, 87.7% and 80.2%, respectively). The prevalence of reported ACEs varied with the age of the respondent, with adolescents reporting much higher rates of exposure to violence, physical and sexual abuse than are reported retrospectively or by caregivers. This variation may partly reflect actual changes in circumstances with maturation, but may be influenced by developmental stage and issues of memory, cognition and emotional state more than has been considered in previous analyses. More research, across disciplines, is needed to understand these processes and their effect on recall. Long-term prospective studies are critical for this purpose. In conclusion, methodological research that uses a range of information sources to establish the reliability and validity of both retrospective and prospective reports ‒ recognizing that the two approaches may fundamentally answer different questions ‒ should be encouraged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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30. Dreams of Wholeness and Loss: Critical sociology of education in South Africa.
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Muller, Johan
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SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIAL sciences ,EDUCATIONAL sociology ,EDUCATIONAL change ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
South African sociologists of education are living through a momentous and highly particular transition at the same time as they participate in global trends and debates This paper reviews changes in their framing concerns as they move from an oppositional positionality to a far more ambiguous space that seems to require of them to choose between critique and reconstruction The resultant re-positioning and the changes forms of appropriation of international themes as local priorities shift is the central concerns of this review [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1996
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31. Understanding the Relationships between Gender Inequitable Behaviours, Childhood Trauma and Socio-Economic Status in Single and Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Rural South Africa: Structural Equation Modelling.
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Jewkes, Rachel, Nduna, Mzikazi, Jama-Shai, Nwabisa, Chirwa, Esnat, and Dunkle, Kristin
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RAPE ,STRUCTURAL equation modeling ,CHILD psychology ,SEXUAL consent ,SOCIAL status ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials - Abstract
Background: Interventions to prevent rape perpetration must be designed to address its drivers. This paper seeks to extend understanding of drivers of single and multiple perpetrator rape (referred to here as SPR and MPR respectively) and the relationships between socio-economic status, childhood trauma, peer pressure, other masculine behaviours and rape. Method: 1370 young men aged 15 to 26 were interviewed as part of the randomised controlled trial evaluation of Stepping Stones in the rural Eastern Cape. We used multinomial to compare the characteristics of men who reported rape perpetration at baseline. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to examine pathways to rape perpetration. Results: 76.1% of young men had never raped, 10.0% had perpetrated SPR and 13.9% MPR. The factors associated with both MPR and SPR (compared to never having raped) were indicators of socio-economic status (SES), childhood trauma, sexual coercion by a woman, drug and alcohol use, peer pressure susceptibility, having had transactional sex, multiple sexual partners and being physically violent towards a partner. The SEM showed the relationship between SES and rape perpetration to be mediated by gender inequitable masculinity. It was complex as there was a direct path indicating that SES correlated with the masculinity variable directly such that men of higher SES had more gender inequitable masculinities, and indirect path mediated by peer pressure resistance indicated that the former pertained so long as men lacked peer pressure resistance. Having a higher SES conveyed greater resistance for some men. There was also a path mediated through childhood trauma, such that men of lower SES were more likely to have a higher childhood trauma exposure and this correlated with a higher likelihood of having the gender inequitable masculinity (with or without the mediating effect of peer pressure resistance). Discussion: Both higher and lower socio-economic status were associated with raping. Prevention of rape perpetration must focus on changing men’s gender ideals, entitlements and inequitable practices. Reducing poverty and adverse childhood experiences should also be of benefit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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32. LAND, LIVELIHOODS, AND THE DECLINE OF WORK: SOUTH AFRICAN LESSONS FOR CURRENT DEBATES.
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Scully, Ben
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LABOR movement ,SOCIAL movements ,LABOR literature ,WORKING class -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc. ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOUTH African literature - Abstract
This article presents a comparison of central debates in South African labor sociology in the 1970s and the contemporary era. I argue that scholars can break through impasses in current labor sociology debates by reviving attention to the land-labor-livelihood (LLL) connections that inspired theoretical advancements in the South African literature of the 1970s. After an introduction and definition of LLL connections, the paper analyzes an exemplary work of the labor literature of the 1970s, giving special attention to the way in which the LLL focus shaped the questions asked by the authors. The article proceeds to a review of central debates from the current labor literature, which focuses primarily on issues of the labor movement. It is argued that this focus on movements has limited the scope of labor scholarship, resulting in an impasse in South African labor debates. An emerging literature that renews attention to the LLL connections is proposed as a model for moving beyond this impasse. I close the article by discussing the implications for this review of South African literature for global labor scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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33. Marx, labour and emancipation in South African sociology: a preliminary rethinking.
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Dubbeld, Bernard
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CAPITALISM ,POLITICAL doctrines ,PROFIT ,FRANKFURT school of sociology ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In a university and disciplinary environment where knowledge is increasingly commodified, this paper sketches a reconstruction of the mature Marx's analysis of capitalism. I argue that his understanding remains methodologically powerful and helps to ground sociological analyses of the present. While accepting that there are good grounds for questioning the relevance of Marx in the wake of the South African political transition and the Post-Fordist transformation of labour, this interpretation departs significantly from how Marx has generally been interpreted by sociologists and other social scientists in the country by foregrounding the commodity as the starting point of his social critique. Indeed, I argue that 'class' and 'workplaces', long a focus of radical sociologists, are on their own inadequate to grasp Marx's concept of capitalism. Finally, drawing on the Frankfurt School, I suggest the importance of a critique of labour and the recognition of contradiction as the starting point of an emancipatory project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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34. Disabled systems and disabling social actions in South Africa.
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Sitas, Ari
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SOCIAL systems ,SOCIAL action ,POST-apartheid era ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The paper argues that there is a serious rupture between the attempt to create a post-Apartheid social system in South Africa and social action. This affects four areas of sociality: gendering systems, livelihood systems, signifying systems and value/normative systems. The consequence of this is that actions and actors in 'civil society', in their attempt to respond to social pressures, fragment and dissipate efforts to steer the society towards what its normative and institutional designs intended in the first place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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35. Reflections on canons, compilations, catalogues and curricula in relation to sociology and sociology in South Africa.
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Jubber, Ken
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DISCIPLINE ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGY ,APARTHEID ,SOCIOLOGISTS - Abstract
The concept canon is increasingly used to refer to the core concepts, texts, theories and authors in scientific and artistic disciplines. This article examines the appropriateness of this term when used in the social sciences generally and in sociology specifically. It argues that in terms of a strict definition of 'canon' sociology does not have a canon and cannot be regarded as a canonical discipline. The concept of a 'compilatory' discipline is introduced and discussed via references to the sociological catalogue and the knowledge/power relations that account for the form and structure of the catalogue. Arguments for regarding sociology as a compilatory rather than a canonic discipline are advanced and some consequences of this are explored through a discussion of the debates and struggles that were waged over the sociology curriculum during the apartheid years and more recently. The paper concludes with a call to South African sociologists to recognise the compilatory nature of the discipline and to meet the challenges this implies in the contemporary context and for the renewal of sociology and social transformation in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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36. Sociology beyond despair: recovery of nerve, endogeneity, and epistemic intervention.
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Adesina, Jimi O.
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SOCIOLOGY ,DISCIPLINE ,ANXIETY ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Sociology as a scholarly vocation within the university in South Africa is bedevilled with the claims of its demise. Both the discipline and a cross-section of its practitioners seem beset with 'status anxiety' and what I call 'status ambiguity.' In this presidential address, delivered to the 2005 Congress of the South African Sociological Association (SASA). I examine these claims. The paper examines the sources of the anxiety. It argues that the claims of sociology's death are grossly exaggerated, as Mark Twain might have put it. I argue that if we were to operate on a wider canvas we might have persuaded ourselves to the position that the ebbs and flows in a discipline like sociology are not evidence of 'death', 'fall' or whatever else we might want to call it: it is not even an evidence of a discipline that is yet to attain maturity. The key to doing 'sociology beyond despair' and the recovery of disciplinary nerve requires a commitment to endogeneity, with a distinct commitment to epistemic intervention in global sociology: it requires us to take our locales seriously: it requires us to take ourselves seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
37. Estimating the Marginal Utility of Different Sections of an Arts Festival: the Case of Visitors to the South African National Arts Festival.
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Snowball, J. D. and Willis, K. G.
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ART festivals ,MARGINAL utility ,FESTIVALS ,ART exhibitions ,SOCIOLOGY ,ETHNIC art ,ETHNIC groups ,UTILITY theory - Abstract
This paper applies choice experiments (CE) to value the utility visitors derive from various sections of the National Arts Festival held once a year in Grahamstown, South Africa. A brief survey of the method and its use to date in valuing cultural goods is provided. The CE conducted at the 2003 South African National Arts Festival is described. The results show that a conditional logit model performs very well in valuing Festival attributes and provides interesting insights into the value that different gender and ethnic groups place on the various elements of the Festival. Such detailed information can help organizers to allocate resources more efficiently; particularly in South Africa, where the emphasis is on attracting previously excluded sectors of the population to cultural events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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38. Rebels with a Cause of Their Own: A Personal Reflection on my Student Years at Rhodes University, 1961-1965.
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Webster, Edward
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RHODES University (Cape Province, South Africa) ,COLLEGE honors courses ,SEGREGATION ,SOCIOLOGY ,STUDENTS ,HISTORIANS - Abstract
The article reports on the experience of the author while he was pursuing the honors course at Rhodes University, Cape Province, South Africa. The honors course consisted of five papers, a paper on seventeenth century England, a paper on Europe between the two world wars, and a long essay which the author had written on changing patterns of land ownership in early eighteenth century England. While reading on England the author came across a book by the Marxist historian Christopher Hill. Instead of the endless tales of kings and queens randomly beheaded, Hill argued that the English civil war could best be understood as a transition from feudalism to capitalism. The author was very much aware of the conservative views of the majority of students at Rhodes when the author joined the Students Representative Council (SRC). It shaped his approach to student politics and made him aware of the limits of any liberal political project at Rhodes at that time. An overwhelming majority elected the author president of the SRC. But his commitment to moderation was put to the test by the implacable logic of the apartheid bureaucracy.
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- 2005
39. In defence of South African sociology.
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Uys, Tina
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SOCIAL sciences , *SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIOLOGISTS , *SOCIAL scientists , *CULTURE - Abstract
This paper explores the practical implications of Wallerstein's call for the substitution of an existing culture of sociology by a culture of social science for the future of the sociological project in South Africa. South African sociology is examined in terms of Therborn's three spaces of identity in which sociology is located: a space of discipline, a space of everyday practice and a space of imagination and investigation. The paper argues that sociology in South Africa is responding creatively to the challenges of our society. In order to maintain this response we need to strengthen our discipline through institutional and intellectual engagement. In conclusion it is argued that sociology is distinctive through its sociological imagination, its emphasis on unmasking deceptions and illusions and its commitment to improving the world we live in. Analytical knowledge, technical know-how and the well-being of human beings are the heart and soul of sociology. Our contribution is best made not as social scientists but first and foremost as sociologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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40. Disability policy and practice in Malawian employment and education.
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Wånggren, Lena, Remnant, Jen, Huque, Sarah, Kachali, Limbani, Sang, Katherine J. C., and Ngwira, Jenipher
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SPECIAL education ,EMPLOYMENT of people with disabilities ,LEGISLATION ,SOCIOLOGY ,DISCRIMINATION (Sociology) ,RESEARCH methodology ,MATHEMATICAL models ,INTERVIEWING ,PUBLIC administration ,SOCIAL justice ,DISABILITY laws ,GOVERNMENT policy ,SOUND recordings ,THEORY ,RESEARCH funding ,PEOPLE with disabilities ,SOCIAL integration ,EVALUATION - Abstract
Malawi is a landlocked country in Southern Africa with a population of 17.5 million. It has taken great strides in addressing disability inequality in recent years. Despite this, Malawian trade unions, educators and disability activists report wide‐reaching disability discrimination at an infrastructural and individual level. Situated at the intersections between disability studies and medical sociology, alongside work of postcolonial and Global South scholars, this article highlights how neo‐colonial and Anglocentric dominant framings of disability do not necessarily fit the Malawian workforce, as they ignore cultural and structural differences in the causes and maintenance of ill health and disability. Building on interviews with workers with disabilities, trade unionists, educators, government representatives and disability activists in Malawi's two biggest cities, the article emphasises the need to address specific local contexts; while policy asserts a model of social oppression, in practice, disability inclusion requires recognition of the social determinants of disability and inequality, and the economic, political and cultural context within which disability resides. Sharing co‐designed approaches to engaging with disability definitions, stigma, language, infrastructure and resources, this article highlights the necessity of grounding disability and medical sociological theory in localised framings and lived experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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41. Sociological research and collaboration in South Africa: Past and present.
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Sooryamoorthy, Radhamany
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SOCIOLOGICAL research ,APARTHEID ,INTERNATIONAL cooperation with research ,SCIENTOMETRICS ,SOCIOLOGY periodicals - Abstract
Sociological research in South Africa presents characteristic features in line with its historical and political phases. This article maps the production of sociological research in South Africa during the apartheid and democratic periods. The data used in the article were drawn from the publication records of South African scholars stored in the database of the Web of Science (WoS). A total of 2342 publications representing the period 1970-2015 was sampled for this scientometric analysis. Employing appropriate statistical tests, the article examines the role of collaboration in the production of sociological knowledge in South Africa, and the relationships that exist among collaboration, international partnerships, subject areas and citations. The analysis shows that South African sociological research has distinctive characteristics that represent the two periods of study. It has benefitted from collaboration, both domestic and international. Collaboration continues to grow in specific subject fields of sociological research in South Africa, and has importance in the visibility of sociological research in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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42. Taking Labour Seriously: Sociology and Labour in South Africa.
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Webster, Eddie
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LABOR movement ,SOCIAL science research ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIAL classes ,NATIONAL socialism & labor ,LABOR unions ,WORK environment ,FINANCIAL crises ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper explores the research programme that emerged among sociologists in response to the rise of the labour movement. It argues that by taking the rise of this movement seriously, sociologists in South Africa were forced to rethink and reconceptualise their research programme in a manner fruitful for the social sciences as a whole. Three propositions are advanced. Firstly, in response to the rise of labour, as well as the emergence of class theory in sociology, a research programme emerged in the 1970s that began to take labour seriously. Secondly, by taking labour seriously, sociologists were drawn beyond a study of the workplace and trade unionism to the social relationships which surround and shape the conditions under which labour lives and works. However, in my third proposition, the worldwide restructuring of work has drawn sociologists back to an examination of work and economic life. In the current economic crisis, a divide is emerging within the black working class that undermines labour's vision of working class unity. A new stratum of African workers is emerging, whose interests are in potential conflict with a growing underclass. But, the paper concludes, the emergence of a new labour elite is not inevitable; it depends on the goals unions adopt and the role unions play in the new democratic order emerging in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1991
43. Editorial.
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Cooper, David
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SOCIOLOGY - Published
- 2023
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44. Pseudo-Families as a Way of Coping with Incarceration by Female Offenders: An Explorative Study of Kgoši Mampuru II and Johannesburg Female Correctional Centres in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
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Munarini, Tshilidzi Peter and Thobane, Mahlogonolo Stephina
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IMPRISONMENT ,SMUGGLING ,SOCIOLOGY ,QUALITATIVE research ,QUANTITATIVE research - Abstract
Copyright of International Annals of Criminology is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2022
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45. A Theoretical Expansion of the Play Cycle: Jakob von Uexküll's Functional Cycle and the Perceptual Cue.
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KING, PETE
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PROFESSIONALISM ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The author seeks to expand the notion of the "play cycle," first introduced in 1998, to include the "functional cycle," with its "perceptual cue," touted by Jakob von Uexküll. He also discusses Simon Nicholson's theory of "loose parts" and James J. Gibson's notion of "affordances." He outlines the impact of these and his now-revised play cycle and its perceptual cues on professional playwork and other play-related activities, especially those in preschool, child care, and the early years of education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2022
46. Play and Write: A Guided-Play Writing Workshop in a South African Classroom.
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PAXTON, KIRSTY
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CLASSROOMS ,LEARNING ,SOCIALIZATION ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The author examines guided play among students in a South African classroom using a play-and-write workshop constructed by her and her students. She determines that the workshop displays the characteristics of playful learning, lies on the playful learning spectrum, and fits the criteria for guided play. She concludes that, given the benefits of playful learning and guided play in particular, teaching involving construction with the students and allowing student-directed activity can prove valuable and should be put to service where possible beyond kindergarten. She adds that these methods should be employed in conjunction with other educational goals in South Africa and elsewhere in the developing world to help mitigate such problems as underfunding and large class sizes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
47. Ring of fire: socially perceived necessities in informal urban settlements in South Africa.
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Noble, Michael and Wright, Gemma
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COST of living ,URBAN poor ,SOCIOLOGY ,BASIC needs -- Social aspects ,BASIC needs ,PUBLIC demonstrations ,REFERENCE groups ,SOCIAL norms ,RURAL poor ,METROPOLITAN areas -- Social conditions ,SERVICES for the poor ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
This paper explores which items people living in South African informal urban settlements regard as essential for an acceptable standard of living, in the context of the high levels of service delivery protests in urban areas. Comparisons are made with people in rural former homeland areas which are shown to have similar levels of deprivation and service delivery dissatisfaction and yet have few such protests. People in informal urban areas rated infrastructure-related items higher than people in rural former homelands. It is argued that inequality and people's reference groups could help explain these attitudinal discrepancies and the locations of protests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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48. Location and orientation: introducing Indian sociology.
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Alexander, Peter
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SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In introducing this special issue, a justification is offered for this South African journal providing valuable space to showcase Indian sociology. This is part of a broader process of creating possibilities for challenging the sociological theory that emanates from just a few wealthy countries yet dominates the way we understand the world. India is particularly important because of the size and influence of the country and the scale and substance of its sociology. Some introductory comments on Indian sociology are presented and the contents of the issue summarised. It is argued that whilst we are located in South Africa we should have an orientation towards the development of a new global sociology, and that the development of co-operation between Indian and South African sociologists, and this special issue in particular, are steps in the right direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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49. O MONDOVINO DE CABEÇA PARA BAIXO: AS TRANSFORMAÇÓES NO MERCADO INTERNACIONAL DO VINHO E O NOVO EMPRESARIADO VINÍCOLA.
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Roese, Mauro
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WINE industry ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,SOCIOLOGY ,WINE making ,PRODUCTION (Economic theory) ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,ENTREPRENEURSHIP ,LUXURY goods industry ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
Copyright of Revista de Sociologia e Política is the property of Revista de Sociologia e Politica and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2008
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50. Presidential Address Tradition, ambition and imagination: Challenges and choices for post-apartheid sociology.
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Uys, Tina
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SOCIOLOGY , *SOCIAL sciences , *SOCIOLOGISTS , *APARTHEID , *SEGREGATION , *QUALITY of life , *CIVILIZATION , *SOUTH Africans - Abstract
Tradition, ambition and imagination are core concepts in the identity of the sociologist. This paper focuses on these three aspects in evaluating the choices and challenges facing post-apartheid sociology. The achievement of the sociological ambition and the expression of the sociological imagination are considered in terms of Michael Burawoy's (2004) distinction between professional, critical, policy and public sociology. Through this analysis the constraints and challenges facing South African sociology are exposed. It is concluded that South African sociology can best be bolstered through an active engagement with national issues and publics within a global context. In this way we can harness the sociological tradition, ambition and imagination in the creation of a better life for all in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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