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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A framework for the evaluation of research in South African Higher Education Institutions : conceptual and methodological issues
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed at establishing whether or not an integrated and appropriate system exists for the evaluation of research in the South African higher education system. As background to the assessment ... -
Gender differences in the publication productivity of South African scientists
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is aimed at describing gender difference in publication productivity among South African academic authors, and to develop an understanding of possible reasons for these differences. It ... -
Health care for intimate partner violence : current standard of care and development of protocol management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The World Health Organisation recognises intimate partner violence (IPV) to be of major consequence to women’s mental and physical health, yet in South Africa it remains a neglected area of care. Within ... -
Identity in organisations : a methodological study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examined organisational identity from a substantive and methodological point of view. With the burgeoning interest in the organisational identity construct, there have been a multitude ... -
Implementation evaluation as a dimension of the quality assurance of a new programme for medical education and training
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, an ‘alignment approach’ to the quality assurance of medical curricula is developed and practically illustrated in the evaluation of a section of a new curriculum in undergraduate medical ... -
Informality and governmentality: An ethnography of conversion entrepreneurship in Harare
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: From its empirical and theoretical genealogy, informality has been proximate to poverty and illegality, hence it is associated with descriptions such as lumpenproletariat, (Neuwirth, 2011) ‘survivalist’, ... -
Internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa: The cases of the Western and Northern Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Internal migration in post-apartheid South Africa is the primary focus of this dissertation. The geographic focus is on two of the country’s current provinces. In both the Northern Cape and the Western ...
