Masters Degrees (Sociology and Social Anthropology)
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Beyond sexy is what’s needed: The experiences of women employed in a luxury VIP nightclub in Cape Town
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Growing up women and men: gendered housework in Xhosa households in Langa
(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 ... -
Exploring how the management of household incomes impact on antiretroviral therapy adherence behaviour of people living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Transitioning between childhood and adulthood: how learners negotiate childhood and adulthood with adult caregivers at school and at home
(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.
(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 ... -
A study of youth education, skills and talents: Diazville, Saldanha Bay
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Youth unemployment rates have been on the rise globally. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has identified 64 million unemployed youth worldwide and many more who are living in poverty. These ... -
Balancing acts: rationalisation and care in the management of mental health call centre counsellors in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the last 30 years, the international rise and proliferation of call centres have had an enormous impact on global work and labour relations. In the literature on the call centre industry, scholars have ... -
The art of making young genders and sexualities in South Africa
(2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a visual arts-based exploration of young genders and sexualities in South Africa. The data presented here was generated by a uniquely designed participatory online visual arts course ... -
The persisting conditions of ‘Day Zero’: How chronic crisis challenges media narratives about the Cape Town water crisis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Cape Town water crisis of 2017 to 2019 became national and international news due to the risk of a major metropole running out of water. What this portrayal neglects to include is the fact that for a ... -
Pumping iron at Frankie’s
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The events and analysis prompting this study play out in a weight training gym in the Rusthof neighbourhood in Strand, Western Cape. Itis called Frankie’s Gym and originated to help deal with social issues ... -
Warrior Girls: violence against women and gender-based activism in a Pentecostal-Charismatic church in Stellenbosch
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Levels of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa are unacceptably high, and manifest in a social context marked by patriarchal forms of power, authority, family organisation, and religion (Centre for ... -
Contested Land: A case study of land reform on the municipal commonage in Loeriesfontein, Northern Cape Province
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis focuses on the competing claims to and interests in the municipal commonages of a small town called Loeriesfontein in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Northern Cape Province. The primary aim ... -
Examining experiences of Zimbabwean migrant entrepreneurs on state repression in the inner-city of Johannesburg, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Focusing on Zimbabwean documented and undocumented migrant entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, the study engages the ways in which the State responds and represses Zimbabweans and their enterprises in the ... -
The efficiency and accuracy of a rapid qualitative tool to ascribe socio-economic status in communities in South Africa – a cross-sectional study.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Socio-economic status (SES) is a well-established construct. Lower SES is consistently associated with increased health challenges. SES is important to social policy and health interventions and, therefore, ... -
The social life of a small ethnology museum in Limpopo, South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This mini-ethnography is concerned with a small-town ethnology museum, the Aranya Museum, and the various actors that entered and engaged with the museum and its artefacts during a period of transition, ... -
"Use Me!" Enterprise development, nature conservation and patronage in northern KwaZulu-Natal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Simangaliso Wetland Park (iWP) was South Africa’s first World Heritage Site and in 2019 it became South Africa’s second largest protected area.The Park consolidated 16 nature reserves that were created ...
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