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A typology of designs for social research in the built environment
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this metamethodological study was to construct a typology of designs for
social research in the built environment, i.e., architecture, urban design and planning.
Currently there is no such ...
A review of methodological trends in South African sociology, 1990–2009
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigates the research methods employed by South African sociological researchers, as published in academic peer-reviewed journals during the period 1990 to 2009. Specific attention was given ...
A review of causes for the relative unequal participation of women in science, engineering and technology and initiatives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Current literature reveals that men and women do not participate in the science, engineering and
technology (SET) sector on equal grounds – not qualitatively (access) or qualitatively (ease of
participation). ...
Student persistence in higher education : a study of the challenges and achievements of a group of historically disadvantaged senior students studying at the University of the Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Students from impoverished economic backgrounds have the highest drop‐out rates
within the higher education sector. Research conducted both locally and
internationally reveals that there are several ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Revealing the social face of innovation
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2015)
Despite the introduction of social innovation in the 1996 White Paper on Science and Technology, the concept
of social innovation has not been actively implemented or even diffused outside of the policy arena in South
Africa. ...
The interpretation and use of mixed methods research within programme evaluation practice
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)
The contemporary evaluation literature advocates for and recommends a pluralistic approach to
programme evaluation, with some writers contending that the use of multiple and/or mixed
methods for the practice is inevitable. ...
The military, war and society : ‘the achilles heel’ of sociology and the need for reflection
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-02)
Lindy Heinecken was formerly a researcher and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Military Studies
(CEMIS) at the South African Military Academy, where
she worked for 17 years. Since 2006 she has been at
the Department ...
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, ...