1. SOME TRENDS IN UNPUBLISHED SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA.
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Van Den Berghe, Pierre L.
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SOCIAL science research ,SOCIOLOGY literature ,EDUCATION ,ART ,RACE relations - Abstract
The major aim of this paper is to condense and make more widely available some of the unpublished research findings in South African social science. This survey is by no means exhaustive, as it deliberately excludes a number of fields, such as purely demographic, anthropological, economic, historical, or theoretical studies. Works having a direct or indirect bearing on race relations constitute the main focus of the present paper, which thus compliments a recent survey of published South African literature. Due to the nature of South African society, social science research in that country is strongly problem-oriented. As a society in an acute state of tension and conflict, South Africa constitutes an ideal laboratory. At the same time, however, research suffers from a number of handicaps. The universities have very limited financial resources and what money is available is devoted to undergraduate teaching rather than research. Consequently the number of graduate students, many of whom are on the teaching stall, is small. Furthermore, the government, through its apartheid regulations, greatly hinders research, particularly South Africans. Recent years have witnessed an exodus of academic personnel, thereby causing a rapid deterioration in the quality of the English-speaking universities.
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- 1962