Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Sociology) by Issue Date
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British emigration to Durban, South Africa : a sociological examination of Richardson's conceptual framework.
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Culture contact : the Afrikaner as a minority in Durban : a study in network theory and practice.
(1981)No abstract available. -
Mkhumbane our home : African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960.
(1989)No abstract available. -
"The corporate guerillas" : class formation and the African corporate petty bourgeoisie in post-1973 South Africa.
(1991)No abstract available. -
Ethnicity as identity and ethnicity politically mobilised : symbols of mobilisation in Inkatha.
(1995)This thesis. entitled 'ETHNICITY AS IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY POLITICALLY MOBILISED: SYMBOLS OF MOBILISATION IN INKATHA'. presents two major contributions. The first is a discussion of ethnicity that not only draws the ... -
The sociological implications of basic educational deficiencies among black adults, and strategies to facilitate the provision of adult education in South Africa.
(1996)Statistics suggest that there are approximately 15 million educationally deficient adults in South Africa (Population Census, 1991). Given the widespread extent of educational deficiency among black adults, and the weak ... -
Women and the political process in a comparative context.
(1998)Over the last few years there has been a escalation of interest in the study of femineity and women. The term "men" is used as an unmarked omnipresent category to symbolise humanity in general. Over the last two decades ... -
An assessment of the sociology undergraduate curriculum at the four universities in the Eastern Seaboard region.
(1999)No abstract available. -
Fragmented, frustrated and trapped : nurses in post-apartheid transition at King Edward VIII hospital, Durban.
(2000)This ethnographic study of nurses at King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, South Africa was designed to seek insights into the lives of women as nurses during the socio-political transition of the 1990's. It suggests ... -
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.
(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 ... -
Performance assessment of technical reports as a channel of information for development : a Lesotho case study.
(2002)The study aims to assess performance of Technical Reports as a channel of information for development in the Lesotho context. It concurrently evaluates how a specialized information unit of the Institute of Southern African ... -
Transforming robocops? : a case study of police organizational change in the Durban Public Order Police unit.
(2002)This dissertation provides a sociological description and explanatory account of the organisational transformation in the Durban Public Order Police (POP) unit following the transition to democratic governance in South ... -
The Natal volunteers in the Anglo-Boer War, September 1899 to July 1902 : reality and perception.
(2002)The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 has been the subject by contemporary and modem historians alike of a plethora of studies on most aspects of the conflict, including its military operations. None, however, has focussed ... -
Rethinking the interface : the limits and possibilities of communication for development.
(2003)Development communication is now a recognized field within communication studies, but has always been implicated with the discourse and practices of development, as well as drawing on the ... -
Social welfare policy towards female-headed households in Cameroon.
(2004)The aim of this study was to explore social welfare policy towards female-headed households (FHHs) in Cameroon and to suggest ways of transforming the sector at policy and practical levels in order to ensure that the needs ... -
Unionising library and information staff in the tertiary sector : a feasibility study.
(2005)The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of unionising the employees of the LIS sector in South Africa in the context of the new South African labour dispensation. The study examined the factors that have ... -
A sociological investigation into the socialisation process of the female African domestic worker in the Durban Metro region.
(2006)Domestic workers in South Africa have historically endured a great deal of inequalities, as a direct result of their role as woman within the traditional patriarchal family structure and as a result of their socialisation ... -
An examination of homicide statistics in South Africa (1948-2003) using a Durkheim analysis of anomie.
(2007)This work provides a statistical analysis and interpretation of homicide rates and patterns in South Africa for the years 1948 to 2003. Complied from data accessed from the South African Police Services, Mortuary Reports, ... -
Designing and assessing the feasibility of an active learning approach to the teaching of legal research.
(2008)This study set out to design and assess the feasibility of an active learning approach to a legal research module. The study was a case study of the second year undergraduate Legal Research Writing and Reasoning (LRWR) ...