Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Nursing the stigma : conflicting realities of abortion
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-11-27)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1996, South African women gained the right to exercise “control over their bodies” through the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOPA). This was a crucial advance for women, as it represented ... -
Die Son Sien Alles : The Constitution of Community in a Post-Apartheid Tabloid
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers a Cape Town based tabloid, Die Son, and how it has become a platform on which a particular community negotiates its boundaries and constitutes itself as shared identity. By approaching ... -
New student activism after Apartheid: the case of Open Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis considers recent student activism in post-apartheid South Africa by paying attention to Open Stellenbosch, a black-led student movement at Stellenbosch University. By using data collected from ... -
Social researchers’ perceptions of ethics review: the role of scientific domain, methodology and ethical position
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last few decades, increased focus has been placed on the importance of research ethics review at higher education institutions. Although this has been welcomed by many academics, various authors ... -
Motherhood constructed online : an exploratory study of South African mommy bloggers
(2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: When blogging first entered the collective mainstream as part of social media, it was thought there was a clear distinction between online and offline life, that communities needed to have physical form, ... -
Knowledge relativity: Carnarvon residents’ and SKA personnel’s conceptions of the SKA’s scientific and development endeavours
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Carnarvon, a small and isolated town in the Northern Cape, is the South African host-town of an international radio astronomy project, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The notion of pushing the boundaries ... -
The changing role of political risk analyses in foreign investment decision-making: A case study of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Political risk has historically been identified as a significant determinant of foreign direct investment (FDI). Numerous studies confirm that investors sometimes eliminate whole geographical regions for ... -
Decelerating factors that impact on the career progression of women academics at Stellenbosch University
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03-15)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2014, Stellenbosch University’s (SU’s) Transformation office released an infographic displaying the percentage of women and men at the various academic ranks throughout the university. This display ... -
Improving shacks, upgrading settlements: An ethnography of solar power infrastructure in the informal settlement of Enkanini, Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis ethnographically explores an in-situ upgrading experiment known as the iShack Project. Through the use of ethnography as method the research elaborates on the intricacies and tensions inherent ... -
"BEEWARE of the wasp " : The role of language in studying and managing the European Paper Wasp.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past decade or two, scientists have recognised the importance of the role the general public may play in scientific research to address scientific challenges. This thesis deals with communication ... -
Single mothers and family formation in Suurbraak: a mixed methods study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mothers from the coloured population in South Africa are often single, raising children without the assistance of a spouse or partner, yet research on their family structures is scarce despite the financial ... -
The local, the global, and the self : an ethnographic account of a community Computer Centre in Carnarvon, Northern Cape, and its significance for its users’ sense of self and their place in the world
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this thesis has been on the local participants in computer education courses that are provided by the Siyafunda Computer and Technology Centre at Kareeberg library in Carnarvon in the Northern ... -
Youth and military service: exploring the effects of military socialisation, reintegration and employment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Military Skills Development System (MSDS) was adopted to rejuvenate the ageing force of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), and has an additional function to provide social uplifment ... -
‘Hair economies’: power and ethics in an ethnographic study of female African hairdressers in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this empirical study, which focused on power and ethics, I explored the relationship between the researcher and the research participant in the context of migrant African women in Cape Town. The ... -
We are all only one pay cheque away from a life like this : experiences of unemployment and homelessness at a community shelter in Somerset West, Western Cape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within the current economic climate, income and job security concerns are a dominant feature in public policy, day-to-day debates and conversations. The following thesis documents the daily lives of a ... -
A case study of women's households, sanitation and care in Zwelitsha, an informal settlement section in Stellenbosch Municipality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study highlights the experience of black African women living in poor households on the margins of Franschhoek and their efforts in navigating poverty against the backdrop of “development” in Langrug. ... -
Afrikaaps: A celebratory protest against the racialised hegemony of 'pure' Afrikaans
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT Afrikaaps is a multi-media (Becker and Oliphant, 2014) protest theatre production that has been performed locally and internationally between 2010 and 2015. Afrikaaps, also termed ‘Vernacular Spectacular’, ... -
Politics and performance of a literacy intervention in Cape Town: School libraries and the new subjection of volunteerism.
(2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, policy-driven research in South Africa led by the Department of Education (DoE) and Library Information Sciences (LIS) in resource-poor schools has focused on the absence of teaching and ... -
A new laager for a “new” South Africa: Afrikaans film and the imagined boundaries of Afrikanerdom
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Afrikaans film industry came into existence in 1916, with the commercial release of De Voortrekkers (Shaw), and, after 1948, flourished under the guardianship of the National Party. South Africa’s ... -
The changing face of Woodstock : a study of inner-city gentrification
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 as she studied the inner-city neighbourhoods of London. She found that neighbourhoods experiencing urban decay would be ...
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