Browsing Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology) by Title

The training, role and challenges of female peacekeepers : experiences of peacekeepers from the Zambia Police Service and the Zambia Army

Mubita, Fredrick (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 ...

Treatment through empowerment? : exploring the dynamics of ‘responsibility’ in antiretroviral therapy (ART) in two clinics in the Cape Winelands

Myburgh, Hanlie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates how the new technology of treatment, i.e. antiretroviral therapy (ART), is incorporated into public health care institutions. The success of this technology ideally relies on the ...

Types of explanations given by foreign African women for xenophobic violence : a De-Doorns case study

Mukwena, Dale (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In November 2009, xenophobic violence flared up in De-Doorns, a small rural town which lies in the Breede Valley Municipality of the Western Cape where table grape production is the main economic activity. ...

Uitgebreide rol van onderwysers in die aanspreek van die behoeftes van kinders wat weerloos gelaat is in die konteks van MIV/VIGS

Taylor, Esmari (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

This thesis is about children who are vulnerable in the context of HIV/AIDS. The epidemic leaves children vulnerable in a number of ways. The education sector is confronted with vulnerable children and this has caused the ...

Understanding volunteerism in South Africa : a mixed methods approach

Seabe, Dineo Shirley (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. ...

The use of peer review as an evaluative tool in science

Eigelaar, Ilse (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Peer review as an institutional mechanism for certifying knowledge and allocating resources dates back as far as 1665. Today it can with confidence be stated that it is one of the most prominent ...

The use of secondary data in the study of living arrangements of households : a case of the October household survey-'96 (OHS) : Western Cape Province

Mosia, Matladi Daniel (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was aimed at using secondary data to conduct an investigation into the relationship between macro-economic factors on one hand and aspects of household life on the other hand. On the basis ...

The use of survey methodology to determine residents' environmental attitudes towards a modern high-rise public housing complex

Du Toit, Jacques Louis (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2000)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This is an applied methodological thesis about the attitudes of residents towards a modern high rise public housing complex. A definition and analysis of the theme show that this housing type is characterised ...

The use of visual art for community development with specific reference to Kayamandi, Stellenbosch

Davidson, Michele (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central theme of this thesis is to establish the use of visual art for community development. This is done within the context of South Africa in Kayamandi, a Black Township near Stellenbosch. This ...

Utilisation of research in South Africa's research institutes

Bowers, Leisl Joanne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The overarching aim of this study is to analyse what researchers in South African higher education institutes and science councils mean by the term 'utilisation'. In specific terms, this aim is interpreted ...

The utility of university-industry partnerships : a case study of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and SASOL

Cele, Mlungisi B. Gabriel; Mouton, Johann (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In South Africa few systematic studies have been done on university-industry partnerships. This research investigated the evolution of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and SASOL partnership involving ...

The validity endeavour

James, Megan (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Qualitative and quantitative research implies different meta-theoretical approaches to knowledge production. The former maintains a constructivist and interpretative perspective, as opposed to the latter, ...

The value of using rapid rural appraisal techniques to generate and record indigenous knowledge : the case of indigenous vegetables in Uganda

Hart, Tim George Balne (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In recent decades increasing attention has been paid to the idea of sustainable development and in particular to sustainable agricultural practices. Studies in the seventies, eighties and nineties ...

Valuing precarious commodities : an ethnography of trade in three charity shops in the Cape Metropolitan area

Watt, Kathryn Grace (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 ...

Verhoudings tussen boere en plaaswerkers in post-apartheid Suid-Afrika : die wisselwerking tussen formalisering en paternalisme

Loxton, Christine (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 ...