Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Ageing, gender and class: differences in experiences and livelihood strategies of ageing populations in Harare, Zimbabwe

Gweru, Benjamin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores ageing as experienced by ageing populations of Harare, Zimbabwe, while raising questions about what constitutes the very category ageing. The study also explores the class and gender ...

Beyond sexy is what’s needed: The experiences of women employed in a luxury VIP nightclub in Cape Town

Dart, Sarah (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Interactive service industries are categorised by the extensive performance of emotional and aesthetic labour, and bodywork performed by employees. Establishments capitalize on the bodies and minds of ...

Fishing for Answers: An exploration of fisherwomen’s roles and activities in the ‘blue economy’ of the South African small-scale fisheries sector

Minnaar, Natasha Daniela (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Women are globally the backbone of the small-scale fisheries (SSF) sector. However, their economic and social contribution to the sector, have constantly been undervalued and unacknowledged. Even if ...

The badge, the blazer and those who came before us: a sociological study on hazing in former model C all-boys schools in the Eastern Cape

Gobodo, Bapiwe (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to explore how seven black men, 18-25 years of age, who have attended all-boys ex-model C schools talk about their understanding and experiences of hazing and what their understanding and ...

Gender, sexuality and schooling: An ethnography of young people in a secondary school in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Zaggi, Hilary (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Studies in Nigeria have presented schools as complex spaces that provide little or no support for young people with regards to gender and sexuality. The view that young people are passive actors in ...

Power struggles: An exploration of the contribution of renewable energy to sustainable development, decent work and the “just transition” through a case study of wind farm development outside Loeriesfontein, Northern Cape Province (2011-2020)

Malope, Boitumelo James (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through a case study of the development of two linked wind farms outside Loeriesfontein, a small town in the Northern Cape Karoo, this dissertation explores the contribution of renewable energy to ...

South African men's engagement in a feminist ethic of care: an extended case study

van den Berg, Wessel Jan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Women in South Africa spend eight times more time on unpaid domestic and care work than men. Motivated by this unequal distribution of care, I aimed to investigate how men in South Africa participate in ...

Growing up women and men: gendered housework in Xhosa households in Langa

Booi, Maria (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Housework and care work are gendered since men and women are expected to perform different tasks that characterise their gender. This is called the gendered division of labour in household which comprise ...

Reaching for partnership: An intersectional study of occupational closure among women attorneys in South Africa

Meyer, Tamlynne (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research contributes to an understanding of the ways in which women attorneys experience social closure in the South African legal profession. The relevance for further research and debate is ...

Exploring how the management of household incomes impact on antiretroviral therapy adherence behaviour of people living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa

Mcinziba, Abenathi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic presents a global health crisis, with approximately 38 million people worldwide living with HIV (PLHIV) in 2019. Amongst them, an estimated 7.8 million PLHIV ...

We need to talk about Ballen: towards a working protocol for representing people with intellectual disabilities and the photographic practice

De Beer Proctor, Christi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Representations of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (PWIDD) in the media are rare, and when they do exist, portrayals tend to reflect and perpetuate their marginalization by ...

Performing the self in new media: A qualitative study on the experiences of South African Muslim women influencers on Instagram

Schroeder, Zara (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper examines how South African Muslim women influencers negotiate the self on Instagram. Drawing from interviews with South African influencers, this research argues that Muslim women influencers ...

Karoo research update : progress, gaps and threats

Hoffman, Michael T.; Cowling, Richard M.; Petersen, Hana; Walker, Cherryl (ASSAf, 2021-01-29)

It has been more than three decades since the conclusion of the Karoo Biome Project (KBP).1 At its height in the late 1980s, the KBP coordinated the efforts of nearly 100 research projects across a range of mainly ...

Transitioning between childhood and adulthood: how learners negotiate childhood and adulthood with adult caregivers at school and at home

Dare, Jade (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My aim in this study is to understand the processes of transitioning from childhood to adulthood from the point of view of Grade 10-11 learners (aged 16 and 17) attending a private school in the Western ...

In a surveillance and regulation of protest movements in a democratic liberal society: exploring the lives of Fees Must Fall activists at Stellenbosch University.

Phillips, Ashwin Lorenzo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The year 2015 marked the beginning of the Fees Must Fall movements in South Africa, this thesis explores the lives of student activists at Stellenbosch University, through the lens of surveillance and ...