Abstract:
The most dramatic example of social change in recent South African history was the abolishment of apartheid in 1994. Social change in post-apartheid South Africa is a progressive but nonetheless slow, complicated and multifaceted process. A potential impediment or cause of the slow progress could be that we are not making full use of the potential the law has to positively influence this process. A possible reason why the law is not currently being used sufficiently to effect social change is a lack of proper or effective socialising agents.. In this mini-dissertation I theorise that education is on the one hand an agent which has much potential to influence this change, but on the other hand may also be the cause of a substantial impediment and delay of social change.
