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Parole in South Africa.
(1982)While imprisonment developed as a more humanitarian alternative to the brutal forms of punishments which prevailed throughout history, it became increasingly evident that it had dysfunctional consequences in respect of the ... -
The attribution of intention to the behaviour of infants and young children, by naive observers.
(1982)This thesis addresses itself to the problem of observing, interpreting and explaining ongoing behaviour in the natural environment. It maintains that the ,intention of the actor is the primary characteristic of behaviour ... -
Some aspects of visual signalling and social organization in the vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus).
(1982)This study uses data from three free-ranging and one caged troop to describe the visual signals identified in the South African subspecies of vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus) and to then compare them ... -
A study of certain correlates of introversion-extraversion among Indian high school and university students.
(1982)No abstract available. -
Stressful life situations of duodenal ulcer patients and the role of the medical social worker.
(1983)A study was undertaken of the stressful life situations of 87 duodenal ulcer patients (50 Indian and 37 Black males) and a control group of 75 non-ulcer patients (43 Indian and 32 Black males). The majority of the control ... -
Childrens' justification of preference for other childrens' drawings.
(1983)The present study sought to establish the justifications of preference offered by children when evaluating other children's drawings. The sample consisted of seventy children, divided into seven age groups, of 6 to 12 ... -
Behaviour, biology and the social condition of Cercopithecus Aethiops, the Vervet Monkey.
(1984)Biotelemetry has been coupled with an ethological approach to investigate a postulate that the physiological, behavioural, and social functioning of individuals coact in order to maintain homeostasis in an everchanging ... -
An Investigation into the use of information-gathering strategies in the acquisition of language.
(1984)It is proposed that young children who already have some degree of linguistic ability will use various verbal information-gathering strategies to enhance that ability. Specifically, it is suggested that such children ... -
Marital conflict among Hindus in the Durban metropolitan area.
(1985)This is a thesis on marital conflict among Hindu South Africans, a community in which the divorce rate is steadily rising. This study aims to gather objective and scientific information on some of the more important factors ... -
Black managers and their work colleagues in selected industrial organizations in Natal : a study of perception, attitudes and experiences.
(1985)South African black Managers are experiencing numerous problems as pioneers in the white-dominated managerial world. Management and research studies have usually concentrated on the black managers' behaviour. The ... -
Learning and development : an investigation of a neo-Piagetian theory of cognitive growth.
(1985)Within the framework of Pascual-Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO), 252 Zulu-speaking children in the 7-8 , 9-10 and 11-12 age-groups were tested four times on the FIT RAC 794, a measure of mental capacity or ... -
A cross-cultural investigation of the interpersonal relations and social milieu of Indian and white gifted children.
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Cybernetics, semiotics and meaning in the cinema.
(School of Communication. University of Johannesburg., 1985)This paper builds on Gene Youngblood's use of cybernetic theory in film analysis. It combines the cybernetic method with Peircian-derived semiotics in an attempt to derive a meta-theory of social process and film textual ... -
Type A behavior pattern and dependency in the adjustment of post-myocardial infarction patients.
(1986)The World Health Organization (1969) has declared that heart disease is the largest plague that ever faced humanity. Myocardial Infarction (MD, in addition to causing more deaths than all other diseases of the heart ... -
The Role of security of social identity in intergroup relations.
(1986)Using concepts derived from Social Identity theory, this study investigated the impact of status, perceived legitimacy/illegitimacy and perceived stabiliity/instability on intergroup bias in a real-life intergroup ... -
The Contribution of siblings to the development of urban black children.
(1986)Sibling research in the past twenty years has moved away from a focus on particular variables such as sex differences, birth order, and rivalry, to a more searching investigation of the influences of sibling interaction. ... -
The validation of the Heimler Scale of Social Functioning (HSSF) for client groups in South Africa.
(1986)The problem identified as the focus of this study is the absence of a scale that measures social functioning with validated norms for any population group in South Africa. The need for such an instrument is highlighted by ...