Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Die Barolong van Thaba'Nchu, O.V.S. : 'n studie van kultuurverandering
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1965)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Bantoegebied van Thaba'Nchu, geleë in die Oranje-Vrystaat, word o.a. bewoon deur 'n vertakking van die Barolongstam, bekend as die Barolong-Seleka, wat oorspronklik van Betsjoeanaland en ... -
Behuising in Kaapstad : 'n sosiologiese studie van die behuisingskemas en -beleid van die Blanke en Kleurling werkersklasse gedurende die honderdjarige tydperk 1840-1939
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1941)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please see full text -
Brokering, mediating and translating rural development: land and agricultural reform in the southern Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The anthropology of development has begun to focus on the analytical concept of brokers as crucial actors, and to investigate their presence across the ‘development chain’. Development does not simply ... -
Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)Identity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. ... -
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 ... -
Cleaning up : a sociological investigation into the use of outsourced housecleaning services
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The nature of paid domestic work is changing. Where the shift from full-time, live-in and live-out, to part-time and temporary domestic work has been well documented in the literature, a new trend of ... -
A comparative study of Afrikaner Economic Empowerment and Black Economic Empowerment : a case study of a former South African parastatal in Vanderbijlpark
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, there have been many debates as to why Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) has been unable to deliver the same economic benefits post 1994, as the Afrikaner Economic Empowerment ... -
Contribution of the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) intervention to the socio-economic development in the Southern Cape Forests : a retrospective approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) maintains that its people-centred Participatory Forest Management (PFM) program contributes to rural poverty eradication through provision of employment, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dependency theory and urbanisation in Southern Africa : a conceptual critique
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1990-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Marxist development theory has been in trouble recently. As it has been applied in Southern. Africa, this theoretical stream originated in the theories of Arrlre Gunder Frank and Imnanuel Wallerstein. ... -
Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)The uncertainty and insecurity generated by social transformation within local and global contexts foregrounds concerns with identity. South African society has a legacy of an entrenched racial order which previously ... -
The dynamics of Francophone African migration to Cape Town after 1994
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate a group of Francophone African migrants in Cape Town during the decade following the end of the apartheid era. The focus of the thesis, however, is on the ... -
The economic and social effects of mobile phone usage: the case of women traders in Accra
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on the impact of mobile phones – and associated information and communication technologies (ICTs) – on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) is on the ascendancy in the contemporary “ICT for ... -
Evaluating the integration of ICTs into teaching and learning activities at a South African higher education institution
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a structured evaluation of the integration of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in teaching and learning activities at the University of Stellenbosch. Although anecdotal ... -
The evolution of the black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, and modern largemammal faunas in central Southern Africa
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)This study investigates the evolution of modern mammalian faunas in the central interior of southern Africa by testing the hypothesis that the evolution of the black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, was directly associated ... -
Exploring the efficacy of community-based natural resource management in Salambala Conservancy, Caprivi Region, Namibia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is titled “Exploring the efficacy of community-based natural resource management in Salambala Conservancy, Caprivi Region, Namibia”. Salambala was one of the first four conservancies to be ... -
Fabriekwerksters in Kaapstad : 'n sosiologiese studie van 540 blanke- en kleurlingfabriekwerksters
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1942)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die toenemende groei van die nywerhede in Suid-Afrika gedurende die afgelope vyftien tot twintig jaar het beteken dat daar 'n vermeerdering van arbeidskanse vir vroulike arbeiders op die gebied moontlik ...
