Doctoral Degrees (Sociology)

Factors affecting maternal health seeking behaviour in a Yoruba community of Nigeria: an analysis of socio-cultural beliefs and practices.

Dada, Ayoola Adekunle. (2019)

The significance of mothers to the overall sustenance of maternal health care cannot be overemphasized, despite this fact, however, there is an increasing gap between the developed and the developing countries in terms of ...

Migration : challenges and experiences of the Ethiopian diaspora in the city of Johannesburg (2000-2015) and the role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s ministry.

Tesfaye, Ayalkibet Berhanu. (2017)

Migration is a fact of international life as people continuously move from one place to another, have different experiences, and must react to new society and their cultures. Following the 1994 dispensation, South Africa ...

The emergence of atheism in post-colonial South Africa.

Pillay, Patrick Brian Segaren. (2017)

This study aims to offer an account of the emergence of the phenomenon of atheism in South Africa and in so doing present a case for its admittance as a new and exciting field of research within the academy in the country. ...

Negotiating sexuality: informal sexual cultures amongst young people at a township high school in KwaZulu-Natal.

Zibane, Sibonsile Zerurcia. (2017)

This thesis is an ethnography of teenage girls and boys in grade 11 who are located in a township school in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Against the backdrop of major social and health problems in the ...

Migration: challenges and experiences of the Ethiopian Diaspora in the city of Johannesburg (2000-2015) and the role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Ministry.

Tesfaye, Ayalkibet Berhanu. (2017)

Migration is a fact of international life as people continuously move from one place to another, have different experiences, and must react to new society and their cultures. Following the 1994 dispensation, South Africa ...

The social construction of the South African seafarer’s identity and coping strategies, in the international merchant navy.

Dekker, Lydia Carol. (2017)

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the social construction of the South African seafarer’s identity and their coping strategies while working in international waters. There are two main objectives in this research. The ...

Out of step but stepping up? : following a group of students negotiating university and beyond.

Bydawell, Moya May. (2015)

This study holistically explores the experiences at university and the effects of a university education for students at a South African university. Literature on students in higher education has generally been focused ...

Employment and social inclusion : implications for young adults in Swaziland.

Khumalo, Thandi F. (2016)

The motivation for the research came from seeing young people struggle to get that first job breakthrough to the extent of compromising their qualifications for any available job, including landing in precarious jobs without ...

An exploration of poverty and socio-cultural factors on young people's access to higher education in Kogi State, Nigeria.

Durowaiye, Babatunde Emmanuel. (2017)

This thesis is based on research, which explores young people‟s access to higher education as shaped, by poverty and socio-cultural factors in Kogi state, north Central Nigeria. It is occasioned by the absence of young ...

The wedding performance : gender inequality and system justification in the white wedding.

Froschauer, Ursula Monica (2016)

The white wedding has become a traditional ritual, which transmits with its preparations and celebrations stereotypical and patriarchal gender norms. Ten white, middle-class, heterosexual, newlywed couples formed the ...

Labour reforms and their impacts on employment security in Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria.

Kolawole, Ibukun Olorunisola.

The central aim of this study is to examine and investigate the impacts of labour market reforms and flexibility trends on employment security in Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria. The implementation of these ...

Churches and service delivery in South Africa : the Black Charismatic Church Ministries (BCCMs), as agents for service delivery in the Eastern Cape.

Sharpley, Nelly. (2013)

The research presented in this thesis is both a qualitative and quantitative case study of two Black Charismatic Church Ministries (BCCMs) from semi-urban areas in the Eastern Cape Province; one in uMdantsane Township in ...

A cross-generational study of the perception and construction of South Africans of Indian descent as foreigners by fellow citizens.

Pillay, Kathryn. (2014)

This thesis examined how the perceptions of South Africans of Indian descent as foreign, by fellow South African citizens, have changed or the extent to which they have remained the same from the time of the first arrival ...

Child mobility, time use and social exclusion : reframing the discourses and debates.

Rama, Sharmla. (2013)

This study asserts that the everyday life, daily activities and mobility interaction remains peripheral within the Sociology of Childhood and Mobilities in particular and sociology in general. This is not to say that there ...

An exploration of community perceptions and understanding of Rwandan genocide memorials.

Bazubagira, Appoline Kabera. (2012)

This study aims to explore community perceptions and understandings of Rwandan Genocide Memorials. It used selected samples of ten genocide memorials that are scattered throughout the country. Those memorial sites are ...

The nature and causes of marital breakdown amongst a selected group of South African Indian Muslims in the Durban Metropolitan Area and its consequences for family life.

Khan, Sultan. (2001)

The institutions of marriage and family have existed throughout human kind and continue to do so as we enter the twenty first century. These are important institutions that prepare individuals as social actors. The ...