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Theses and Dissertations (Sociology): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)This study illustrates how indigenous social protection systems deal with covariate shocks in Southeastern Nigeria. It emphasises the dimensions, functions, and potential of these indigenous systems in managing the risks ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)South Africa’s national response to the advent of the CoVID-19 pandemic included government’s announcement of the “extraordinary coronavirus budget” of R500 billion that was aimed at cushioning society and the economy from ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study focuses on the constructions of women’s economic empowerment in microfinance between World Vision, its partners, and boMake. The study adopts an ethnographic stance and examines the ideologies and governance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11-28)In South Africa there is a large number of unemployed people, which in no small part is due to the formal sector’s incapability to create more job opportunities. People are vulnerable to poverty, and as a result, the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study explored the experiences and investigated the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education and career aspirations of young people in South Africa, with particular focus on Soshanguve, a township ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)When the World Health Organisation (WHO) first declared the Covid-19 crisis a global pandemic, an unprecedented experiment in both the management of population groups and crisis situations followed. Within their attempts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The Global South has been a historical site for marginality and precarity, challenging the Global North’s theorisations and assumptions of precarity being a uniquely Northern phenomenon. This dissertation focuses on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022-11)This thesis is based on a doctoral study that aimed to explore the livelihood challenges and strategies of unemployed graduate youth in Botswana and the extent to which current active labour market programmes in the country ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study explores the social construction of masculinity among young boys and its impact on gender relations at two township primary schools in South Africa. Drawing from the conceptual ideas of Critical Studies on Men ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The aim of this study is to explore the cross-border migration of Zimbabwean women who undertake various types of care work within the domestic sector in South Africa. The study seeks to understand the female labour migration ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This thesis contributes to an understanding of the continued reliance on mining migrant labour. It explores why men from Mpondoland in Flagstaff and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape Province continue to leave their homes to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1967)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The following study explores the conditions under which former adolescent mothers were successfully or unsuccessfully reintegrated back into high school before and after giving birth. 12 semi-structured, in-depth, interviews ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-11)The Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a merciless war from 1998 to 2002 that seriously affected its labour market, as it did all other aspects of society. The effects on the labour market have aroused various debates. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In this study, I investigated the search for health and healing in a region of modern Zambia, tracing the imbricated forms of medical knowledge and practices. Drawing on my completed original Honours research project, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-01-13)By posing a provocative question, “What is a Woman?” this thesis intended to deconstruct normative conceptions of womanhood which are essentialised to marriage. To achieve these ends, I located the key questions of this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The national project of the African National Congress (ANC), the National Democratic Revolution (NDR), guides the post-apartheid state’s work to develop a new African middle class through policies such as Affirmative Action ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-06)This study is focused on the relationship between mothers and their daughters, and the ways in which this relationship serves as a critical site from which black women (specifically from rural Venda area in Northern South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Drawing primarily on post-structural feminist conceptualisations of identity and power, this study explored Zimbabwean men’s comprehension of their own experiences of women-perpetrated abuse and the ways they construct ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study on conflict management in the South African Police Service (SAPS) as an essential service is based on available literature and interview-based research. It explores and discusses the issue of labour rights and ...
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