Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Decelerating factors that impact on the career progression of women academics at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03-15)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2014, Stellenbosch University’s (SU’s) Transformation office released an infographic displaying the percentage of women and men at the various academic ranks throughout the university. This display ...
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"BEEWARE of the wasp " : The role of language in studying and managing the European Paper Wasp.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past decade or two, scientists have recognised the importance of the role the general public may play in scientific research to address scientific challenges. This thesis deals with communication ...
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Single mothers and family formation in Suurbraak: a mixed methods study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mothers from the coloured population in South Africa are often single, raising children without the assistance of a spouse or partner, yet research on their family structures is scarce despite the financial ...
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The local, the global, and the self: An ethnographic account of a community Computer Centre in Carnarvon, Northern Cape, and its significance for its users’ sense of self and their place in the world
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this thesis has been on the local participants in computer education courses that are provided by the Siyafunda Computer and Technology Centre at Kareeberg library in Carnarvon in the Northern ...
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Youth and military service: exploring the effects of military socialisation, reintegration and employment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Military Skills Development System (MSDS) was adopted to rejuvenate the ageing force of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), and has an additional function to provide social uplifment ...
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‘Hair economies’: power and ethics in an ethnographic study of female African hairdressers in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this empirical study, which focused on power and ethics, I explored the relationship between the researcher and the research participant in the context of migrant African women in Cape Town. The ...
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We are all only one pay cheque away from a life like this: Experiences of unemployment and homelessness at a community shelter in Somerset West, Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2-02-13)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within the current economic climate, income and job security concerns are a dominant feature in public policy, day-to-day debates and conversations. The following thesis documents the daily lives of a ...
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A case study of women's households, sanitation and care in Zwelitsha, an informal settlement section in Stellenbosch Municipality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study highlights the experience of black African women living in poor households on the margins of Franschhoek and their efforts in navigating poverty against the backdrop of “development” in Langrug. ...
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Afrikaaps: A celebratory protest against the racialised hegemony of 'pure' Afrikaans
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT Afrikaaps is a multi-media (Becker and Oliphant, 2014) protest theatre production that has been performed locally and internationally between 2010 and 2015. Afrikaaps, also termed ‘Vernacular Spectacular’, ...
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Politics and performance of a literacy intervention in Cape Town: School libraries and the new subjection of volunteerism.
(2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, policy-driven research in South Africa led by the Department of Education (DoE) and Library Information Sciences (LIS) in resource-poor schools has focused on the absence of teaching and ...
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A new laager for a “new” South Africa: Afrikaans film and the imagined boundaries of Afrikanerdom
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Afrikaans film industry came into existence in 1916, with the commercial release of De Voortrekkers (Shaw), and, after 1948, flourished under the guardianship of the National Party. South Africa’s ...
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The changing face of Woodstock : a study of inner-city gentrification
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 as she studied the inner-city neighbourhoods of London. She found that neighbourhoods experiencing urban decay would be ...
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The Adam Tas student association and the tension between Afrikaans identity and transformation at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: After 1994, transformation interventions in all sectors of South African society were needed to adequately address socio-economic disparities caused by apartheid policies. The objective of equalising ...
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Teenage mothers’ experiences of motherhood : schooling, stigma and learned responsibility : a case study of teenage mothers of school going age in a peri-urban area in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to contribute to research that seeks to understand experiences of teenage motherhood. Drawing on the experiences of fifteen (15) teenage mothers between the ages of 15 to 19 years old, ...
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Evaluating the implementation of employment equity in a pharmaceutical company : a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This qualitative single case study explored the implementation of employment equity in a pharmaceutical company referred to as Medco and the factors that played a role in that regard. A case study design ...
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The challenges of curbing corruption in a democracy : the case of the Public Protector and Nkandla
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Corruption as a global phenomenon has remained a recurring subject in development and nationbuilding discussions, particularly in Africa. Across the continent, there is a growing concern about the ...
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Negotiating labour insecurity : a case study of temporary off-farm workers in the deciduous fruit sector in Ceres
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis develops a socio-economic profile of temporary off-farm workers and examines how they negotiate labour insecurity in a context of high unemployment and casualisation of work. This is realised ...
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The training, role and challenges of female peacekeepers : experiences of peacekeepers from the Zambia Police Service and the Zambia Army
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the 1990s, there has been a shift from state security to human security, which gave rise to a more people-centred approach to security. Within this context, feminist scholars started to advocate for ...
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Caregivers, care work and the limits of healthcare : an ethnographic exploration into practices of community-based HIV prevention, treatment and care in a resource-limited setting in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In just over a decade the South African government's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic has gone from a position that could be described as adversarial to rolling out and sustaining the largest antiretroviral ...
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Good fences make good neighbours : a qualitative, interpretive study of human–baboon and human–human conflict on the Cape Peninsula
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Picturesque Cape Town is the epitome of an urban/nature interface but one within which chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) face slander for transgressing both the socially constructed human/animal and ...
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“Real men”, “Proper ladies” and mixing in-between : a qualitative study of social cohesion and discrimination in terms of race and gender within residences at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My research is motivated by concerns with promoting „transformation‟ in Stellenbosch University, a formerly white Afrikaans University which is still predominantly white in terms of numbers and proportions ...
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Producing post-apartheid space : an ethnography of race, place and subjectivity in Stellenbosch, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the end of Apartheid, many scholars of South Africa celebrated democratisation and offered optimism for the end of racial segregation. Racial segregation, however, still exists in South Africa and ...
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A clash of cultures : exploring the perceptions and experiences of South African youth towards the military as an employer of choice
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the shift to an all-volunteer force and the end of the Cold War, armed forces across the globe are finding it increasingly difficult to attract, recruit and retain the right quantity and quality of ...
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Verhoudings tussen boere en plaaswerkers in post-apartheid Suid-Afrika : die wisselwerking tussen formalisering en paternalisme
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An outcome of this thesis, done on farms in South-Africa in the Swartland area, is that the labour structure in agriculture is still predominantly paternalistic and that paternalism and empowerment ...
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Contraceptive knowledge and practices among students in federal polytechnic Kaduna, Nigeria : an exploratory study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) in 2011 reported a low rate of contraceptive use among Nigerian youths at 29%, despite reported high rates of sexual activity and increased awareness of the existence ...
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Understanding volunteerism in South Africa : a mixed methods approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The past two decades have seen a growing interest in volunteering in South Africa as the new democracy struggles with providing services while ensuring the economic and social inclusion of its populace. ...
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Valuing precarious commodities : an ethnography of trade in three charity shops in the Cape Metropolitan area
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I investigate how the value of factory manufactured second-hand objects is determined within three charity shops in the Cape Metropolitan area. I argue that the value of the second-hand ...
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The Weblight-District : a study of how women use the internet to work independently as sex workers, their investments in this kind of work, and the challenges this poses
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the characteristics of discourses about people who are marginalised such as sex workers, in many societies, is the way they are rendered through these very discourses as "Other‟ through, for example, ...
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A conceptual model for a programme monitoring and evaluation information system
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Literature on monitoring and evaluation acknowledges the complexity in the field. Many evaluation studies require empirical evidence to be integrated with decisions on standards and values to reach robust ...
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Custodians of the Cape Peninsula : a historical and contemporary ethnography of urban conservation in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The official custodian of the Cape Peninsula mountain chain, located at the centre of Cape Town, is the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP). This park is South Africa’s only urban open-access park and ...
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