School of Social Sciences
Sub-communities within this community
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Culture [66]
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Ethics Studies [27]
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Gender Studies [90]
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History [109]
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Information Studies [179]
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Philosophy [70]
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Political Science [216]
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Public Policy [30]
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Social Policy [20]
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Sociology [247]
Recent Submissions
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Religion and gender inequality a case study of the Baptist Union of South Africa (BUSA) with particular reference to the eThekwini Municipality.
(2021)Historically, Baptist churches have marginalised women. Baptist churches within South Africa are still primarily male-dominated religious organisations. This study looks into the belief held by many that it is unbiblical ... -
The portrayal of history by African writers in "Bantu World", 1932 - 1936.
(1994)Abstract available in PDF. -
An analysis of the curricula of school librarianship programmes in colleges of education in Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei.
(1994)Abstract available in PDF. -
Murder in Natal 1992-1993 : a sociological analysis of rates and patterns.
(1994)No abstract available. -
Ubuntu and modernity in Africa: a critical examination of Ubuntu and its challenges in modern philosophical discourses.
(2020)The debate between Bernard Matolino and Wenceslaus Kwindingwi’s ‘The end of ubuntu’ and Thaddeus Metz’s ‘Just the beginning for ubuntu [..]’ has been a major force to be reckoned with and a serious bone of ... -
An ethical assessment of the structural agency of the blessee in the ‘Blesser-Blessee’ phenomenon.
(2020)This study concerned the ‘Blesser-Blessee’ Phenomenon (BBP) in South Africa. The BBP is a social construct based on a transactional relationship. A social construct is based on what society sees and experiences around ... -
Evo-existentialism: facing death.
(2021)Mortality awareness is a uniquely human phenomenon that the existentialists believed science was unable to explain. However, excluding the topic from scientific enquiry doesn’t make as much sense as it previously did. ... -
Assessing the ethico-cultural implications of Invitro Fertilization (IVF) within the rural Zulu communities in South Africa.
(2020)This dissertation is a critical analysis of the African ways of managing infertility. It argues that infertile people are stigmatized in African communities because they are not regarded as complete social beings. This ... -
The involvement of political parties in the politicization of the South African local government bureaucracy: the political-bureaucratic relations between municipal managers, politicians and political parties.
(2020)Several studies (Wilson 1887; Goodnow 1900; Weber 1946; Holcombe and Gwarteny 1989; Rahman 2014; Muhdiarta, Haning, and Ahmad 2017; Dasandi, and Esteve 2017, etc.) show that politicization of the bureaucracy is on the ... -
An assessment of the implementation of the Batho Pele principles in waste management and water services in uMsunduzi Local Municipality.
(2020)Government policy has been an integral component of service delivery in the democratic dispensation. Since 1994, service delivery has been a top priority for the government, which has acknowledged it as a tool to reduce ... -
Conservation, sustainable development and ecotourism in South Africa and KwaZulu-Natal : a policy-analysis.
(1995)Abstract available in PDF. -
Strategies for sustaining the provision of electronic information resources services in university libraries of North Central Nigeria.
(2020)Electronic Information Resources (EIRs) is trending as a system of information provision and services in libraries, an alternative to the traditional information services system. EIRs presently constitute vital sources of ...
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