Doctoral Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
Recent Submissions
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"What's mine?" : rural women's experiences around property rights in the context of dissolved marriages in matrilineal societies : a case study of Muluwila Village in Kuntunmanje area, Zomba District, malawi.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Granting women access to and rights in property (including housing and land) is widely regarded in the literature on gender and development as contributing significantly both towards women’s empowerment ...
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Namakwaland :'n sosiologiese studie van 'n geisoleerde gemeenskap
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1942-06)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was hoofsaaklik om 'n volledige opname te maak van alle fases van die gemeenskaslewe in die verafgeleë en geïsoleerde distrik van Namakwaland. Gegewens oor die gemeenskap ...
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Identity in organisations : a methodological study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined organisational identity from a substantive and methodological point of view. With the burgeoning interest in the organisational identity construct, there have been a multitude ...
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Public understanding of global climate change in Malawi : an investigation of factors influencing perceptions, attitudes and beliefs about global climate change
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is informed by both the deficit/positivist and contextual/critical models for doing public understanding of science (PUS) research and seeks to investigate factors that influence the perceptions, ...
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The physical and social benefits of urban agriculture projects run by non-governmental organisations in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urban agriculture (UA) has always been practised in African urban centres. Only since the turn of the twentieth century, however, have development researchers turned their attention to its potential as ...
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Public participation in hostel redevelopment programs in Nyanga and Langa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Literature on public participation generally assumes the existence of a causal relationship between community participation in urban development programs and the satisfaction of beneficiaries of such ...
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Playing gender in childhood : how boys and girls construct and experience schooling and play in a township primary school near Durban
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on how children learn to behave in gendered ways has focused on a „top-down‟ process of socialisation which positions children as passive recipients of gender norms of the societies they inhabit. ...
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Xenophobic exclusion and masculinities among Zimbabwean male migrants : the case of Cape Town and Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The anthropological investigation of masculinities remains an understudied dimension of transnational migration and xenophobia studies in post-apartheid South Africa. This thesis sets out to examine the ...
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Land transactions and rural development policy in the Domboshava peri-urban communal area, Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch -- Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to the proliferation of peri-urban settlements close to cities. Development policy in these areas is multi-pronged. Residents with local tribal, as well as migrant ...
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University politics under the impact of societal transformation and global processes : South Africa and the case of Stellenbosch University, 1990-2010
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Worldwide, national higher education systems and universities are repeatedly confronted with global higher education trends and the challenge to handle them in specific national and institutional contexts. ...
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The role of African Christian churches in dealing with sexual violence against women : the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Liberia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sexual violence against women (SVAW) has always been part of armed conflict. However, only recently has international law deemed it a crime against humanity and a genocidal crime, thus finally recognising ...
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Theory-based evaluation, logic modelling and the experience of SA non-governmental organisations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined the origins and development of theory-based evaluation (TBE) and the logic models associated with this approach. This was done in order to better understand the roots and evolution of ...
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Water services education and training needs of councillors in the Local Government Development Agenda (LGDA)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes and analyses the water governance and developmental water services education and training needs of councillors in water services authorities (WSAs) in the Northern Cape Province in ...
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Research funding and modes of knowledge production : a comparison between NRF-funded and industry-funded researchers in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The changing South African policy context since 1994 (new science and innovation policies), and institutional changes at the National Research Foundation (NRF) have had an effect on different funding ...
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Language and the politics of identity in South Africa : the case of Zimbabwean (Shona and Ndebele speaking) migrants in Johannesburg
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Discourses about identity framed in terms of questions about autochthons and the Other are on the ascendance in the contemporary socio-political and cultural milieu. Migration, by virtue of its transgression ...
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Post-war state-led development at work in Angola : the Zango housing project in Luanda as a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a case study of the Zango social housing project in Luanda, the capital of the southern African state of Angola. Through an examination of the Zango project, which was born on the ...
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A responsive evaluation approach in evaluating the safe schools and the child-friendly schools programmes in the Limpopo province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the use of a responsive evaluation approach in evaluating programme implementation: Safe Schools and the Child Friendly Schools Programmes. A case study design was adopted for use ...
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Journalism education in universities : the global and local migration of concepts between discipline and practice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with the relationship between university-based journalism education and journalism as a social practice. It is argued that the construction of this relationship can be better understood ...
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Local responses to a travelling model of crime prevention and crime management : community policing in Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The mention of any form of crime in South Africa for the most part invokes fear of both an unknown or known perpetrator who may strike at any time and inflict harm to one’s body and property. Through ...
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Churches as providers of HIV/AIDS care : a normative and empirical study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is, as yet, no cure for HIV/AIDS, a disease that has affected South African society profoundly. While antiretrovirals (ARVs) are now available and have stemmed the tide of AIDS deaths, medicines ...
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Poverty and dependency in Cape Town : a sociological study of 3,300 dependents receiving assistance from the Cape Town General Board of Aid
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1936)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: no abstract available
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Die plattelandse skool in Oudtshoorn : 'n sosiologiese studie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1948-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: see item for full text
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Tegniese, ekonomiese en sosiologiese determinante van doeltreffendheid in wingerdboerdery
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1970)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: no abstract available
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Crossing social boundaries and dispersing social identity : tracing deaf networks from Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conciliatory discourse of the South African Deaf social movement claims a commonality across South Africa's historical divides on the basis of a 'Deaf culture'. This claim in view of South Africa's ...
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An analysis of the emerging patterns of reproductive behaviour among rural women in South Africa : a case study of the Victoria East District of the Eastern Cape Province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study describes and analyses changes in women's reproductive behaviour ID developing communities. These changes took more than hundred years to occur ID Western communities but only two to three ...
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The current relevance of populist history in schools : the attitudes of Cape Town youth to history
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis exanunes whether the historical consciousness of grade 10 youth would increase should there be an intervention facilitated for this purpose, that is that they would show a heightened ...
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Plaaslike magsopset teoretisering : 'n sintetiese bydrae as gids vir die ontleding van Suid-Afrikaanse plaaslike magsopsette
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: 1. Aim of study The main aim of this study is to collect and evaluate the different ways of the theorizing of local power configurations and to assemble the elements thereof in a theoretical framework. ...
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Negotiating post-apartheid boundaries and identities : an anthropological study of the creation of a Cape Town Suburb
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the complex and contested processes of drawing boundaries and negotiating identities in the post-Apartheid South African context by analysing how residents in a new residential ...
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An assessment of the extent of empowerment through community participation : a Kwazulu-Natal rural development comparison
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to assess the extent of the relevance and success of the empowerment model in facilitating and promoting rural development in South Africa. The assumption was that through ...
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The use of visual research methods in the South African research context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African society presents a complex and diverse environment to social scientists. Within immense economic stratification; a multitude of cultures and classes; languages and their dialects; and ...
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