Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans

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dc.contributor.advisorBekker, S. B.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPuttergill, Charles Hughen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherStellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-09T08:31:59Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:19:36Z
dc.date.available2008-05-09T08:31:59Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:19:36Z
dc.date.issued2008-03
dc.descriptionThesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
dc.description.abstractThe 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 privileged those classified ‘white’. The assumed normality in past practices of such an institutionalised system of racial privileging was challenged by a changing social, economic and political context. This dissertation examines the discourse of white middle-class South Africans on this changing context. The study draws on the discourse of Afrikaansspeaking and English-speaking interviewees living in urban and rural communities. Their discourse reveals the extent to which these changes have affected the ways they talk about themselves and others. There is a literature suggesting the significance of race in shaping people’s identity has diminished within the post-apartheid context. This study considers the extent to which the evasion of race suggested in a literature on whiteness is apparent in the discourse on the transformation of the society. By considering this discourse a number of questions are raised on how interviewees conceive their communities and what implication this holds for future racial integration. What is meant by being South African is a related matter that receives attention. The study draws the conclusion that in spite of heightened racial sensitivity, race remains a key factor in the identities of interviewees.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1363
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
dc.rights.holderStellenbosch University
dc.subjectIdentityen_ZA
dc.subjectDiscourseen_ZA
dc.subjectTransitionen_ZA
dc.subjectRaceen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- Sociology
dc.subjectTheses -- Sociologyen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshWhites -- Race identity -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshRace -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshIdentity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleDiscourse on identity : conversations with white South Africansen_ZA
dc.typeThesis
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