Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-01
- Subjects: Sociology, Urban
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010509
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination January 2008.
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- Date Issued: 2008-01
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-01
- Subjects: Sociology, Urban
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010509
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination January 2008.
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- Date Issued: 2008-01
Theories of Industrial Society: SOC 12E & INS 212E
- Mosenthal, Derek, Duma, Vusumzi
- Authors: Mosenthal, Derek , Duma, Vusumzi
- Date: 2007-08
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17933 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010502
- Description: Theories of Industrial Society: SOC 12E & INS 212E, Supplementary examination August 2007.
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- Date Issued: 2007-08
- Authors: Mosenthal, Derek , Duma, Vusumzi
- Date: 2007-08
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17933 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010502
- Description: Theories of Industrial Society: SOC 12E & INS 212E, Supplementary examination August 2007.
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- Date Issued: 2007-08
Classical Sociological Theory: SOC 212
- Authors: Duma, V , Mayaluza-Masina, N
- Date: 2007-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17955 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010526
- Description: Classical Sociological Theory: SOC 212, supplementary examiantion July 2007.
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- Date Issued: 2007-07
- Authors: Duma, V , Mayaluza-Masina, N
- Date: 2007-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17955 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010526
- Description: Classical Sociological Theory: SOC 212, supplementary examiantion July 2007.
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- Date Issued: 2007-07
Narratives of South African heteroseual relationships: understanding masculine and feminine togetherness
- Authors: Tracey, Tiffany
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Heterosexuality , Heterosexism , Homosexuality , Gender identity
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , D Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier: vital:11601 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/176 , Heterosexuality , Heterosexism , Homosexuality , Gender identity
- Description: Heterosexuality often appears as a monolithic way of being that has been disciplinarily defined as right and natural for all sexual subjects (Foucault, 1979). However, it may also be viewed as a social construction, subject to alteration and variation according to social and historical context. In the following research, the stories of ten couples and from the South African soap opera Isidingo reveal the ways that heteronorms shape togetherness between men and women. In the research a queer stance is used to interrogate the ways that togetherness appears as natural and normal, such that the contingency of such togetherness is revealed. The queer stance was used to unsettle the unquestioned assumption of heteronormativity by interrogating the construction from a political position not included by the norm (Stein & Plummer, 1994). Within the general queer stance the concept of performance has been used to account for the ways in which subjects are able to unsettle normative constraints: Butler’s (1993) conception of repetition, Holzman’s (1991) account of the revolutionary developmental potential of performance, Billig’s (1991) understanding of the rhetorical constructions of everyday philosophers. Further Bakhtin’s (1994) dialogic ontology suggests that utterances, performances and/or narratives Using these theoretical underpinnings, the narratives show how stories of togetherness collude with heteronorms while at the same time existing alongside alternative forms of togetherness. Possibly because norms are broad, overarching constructions, they do not define the entirety of the couples’ tales. Rather moments of resistance and alteration are interwoven with normative themes. This unpredictable ambivalence appears in the couples narratives as the assertion that all relationships are the same, and that all relationships are unique. Couples position themselves within a social network, and this network instructs the couple on heteronormative ways of being together. They also witness normative performances in a way that is similar to the observation of disciplines, suggested by Foucault (1979). Although couples often go with their social network’s observations, the manner in which couples position themselves within this network assists them in arguing for alternatives to heteronorms. Spatial expressions also at times serve to fix togetherness. Homes are structured in line with social constructions of heteronorms. However, couples can and do mould their understandings of their homes, such space is reveal as an intersection between social and individual concerns. Narratives of work again reveal that heteronorms structure but can also be ignored within heterosexual relationships. Couples tell of receiving particular benefits from normative performances, and it is likely that these dividends make it difficult to opt for an altered version of togetherness. At the same time, the gender dualism of a heteronormative division of labour inserts oppression into togetherness, and this may lead couples to seek an unusual way of being together. In these ways, heterosexuality can be read as a multiple and contingent performance, rather than an immovable, unchangeable imperative.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Tracey, Tiffany
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Heterosexuality , Heterosexism , Homosexuality , Gender identity
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , D Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier: vital:11601 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/176 , Heterosexuality , Heterosexism , Homosexuality , Gender identity
- Description: Heterosexuality often appears as a monolithic way of being that has been disciplinarily defined as right and natural for all sexual subjects (Foucault, 1979). However, it may also be viewed as a social construction, subject to alteration and variation according to social and historical context. In the following research, the stories of ten couples and from the South African soap opera Isidingo reveal the ways that heteronorms shape togetherness between men and women. In the research a queer stance is used to interrogate the ways that togetherness appears as natural and normal, such that the contingency of such togetherness is revealed. The queer stance was used to unsettle the unquestioned assumption of heteronormativity by interrogating the construction from a political position not included by the norm (Stein & Plummer, 1994). Within the general queer stance the concept of performance has been used to account for the ways in which subjects are able to unsettle normative constraints: Butler’s (1993) conception of repetition, Holzman’s (1991) account of the revolutionary developmental potential of performance, Billig’s (1991) understanding of the rhetorical constructions of everyday philosophers. Further Bakhtin’s (1994) dialogic ontology suggests that utterances, performances and/or narratives Using these theoretical underpinnings, the narratives show how stories of togetherness collude with heteronorms while at the same time existing alongside alternative forms of togetherness. Possibly because norms are broad, overarching constructions, they do not define the entirety of the couples’ tales. Rather moments of resistance and alteration are interwoven with normative themes. This unpredictable ambivalence appears in the couples narratives as the assertion that all relationships are the same, and that all relationships are unique. Couples position themselves within a social network, and this network instructs the couple on heteronormative ways of being together. They also witness normative performances in a way that is similar to the observation of disciplines, suggested by Foucault (1979). Although couples often go with their social network’s observations, the manner in which couples position themselves within this network assists them in arguing for alternatives to heteronorms. Spatial expressions also at times serve to fix togetherness. Homes are structured in line with social constructions of heteronorms. However, couples can and do mould their understandings of their homes, such space is reveal as an intersection between social and individual concerns. Narratives of work again reveal that heteronorms structure but can also be ignored within heterosexual relationships. Couples tell of receiving particular benefits from normative performances, and it is likely that these dividends make it difficult to opt for an altered version of togetherness. At the same time, the gender dualism of a heteronormative division of labour inserts oppression into togetherness, and this may lead couples to seek an unusual way of being together. In these ways, heterosexuality can be read as a multiple and contingent performance, rather than an immovable, unchangeable imperative.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111
- Jadhunundhan, R, Rautenbach, E
- Authors: Jadhunundhan, R , Rautenbach, E
- Date: 2005-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18265 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011261
- Description: Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111, examination June 2005.
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- Date Issued: 2005-06
- Authors: Jadhunundhan, R , Rautenbach, E
- Date: 2005-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18265 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011261
- Description: Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111, examination June 2005.
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- Date Issued: 2005-06
Correctional Administration, Victimology and Crime Prevention: CRM 122
- Earl-Taylor, M, Matshaba, M, Daniel, N
- Authors: Earl-Taylor, M , Matshaba, M , Daniel, N
- Subjects: Criminology
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011178
- Description: Correctional Administration, Victimology and Crime Prevention: CRM 122,supplementary examination January/February 2010.
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- Authors: Earl-Taylor, M , Matshaba, M , Daniel, N
- Subjects: Criminology
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011178
- Description: Correctional Administration, Victimology and Crime Prevention: CRM 122,supplementary examination January/February 2010.
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Social acts and projections of change
- Authors: Minkley, G
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011241
- Description: This lecture considers the question of the social from within the workings of the SARChI Chair in Social Change. Rather than accepting ‘the social’ as something that is given, it proposes that we problematize and ‘re: work’ the social as being a hybrid domain, as being spatially diverse and as being enacted. An argument for ‘social acts’, which are related to, but not the same as actors and actions is proposed as a means to read and understand the social and projections of social change in new ways. While social acts produce actors and need actors to be actualised, social acts themselves produce ruptures in the given, entail a remaining in the scene and they always involve others and the Other in altering projections of the social, of ‘other socials’, and of projections of change. In practice too, the enactment of the social and the material as integrally associative decentre the object, bringing it into view as one that is also socially enacted, requiring continuing effort, choreography, staging, repetition, but also rupture. To enact, then, is to realize a rupture in the given-ness of the social and to necessarily attend to the unexpected, unpredictable and unknown of the social and its equally enacted and re-worked projections of change.
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- Authors: Minkley, G
- Language: English
- Type: Inaugural lecture
- Identifier: vital:11982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011241
- Description: This lecture considers the question of the social from within the workings of the SARChI Chair in Social Change. Rather than accepting ‘the social’ as something that is given, it proposes that we problematize and ‘re: work’ the social as being a hybrid domain, as being spatially diverse and as being enacted. An argument for ‘social acts’, which are related to, but not the same as actors and actions is proposed as a means to read and understand the social and projections of social change in new ways. While social acts produce actors and need actors to be actualised, social acts themselves produce ruptures in the given, entail a remaining in the scene and they always involve others and the Other in altering projections of the social, of ‘other socials’, and of projections of change. In practice too, the enactment of the social and the material as integrally associative decentre the object, bringing it into view as one that is also socially enacted, requiring continuing effort, choreography, staging, repetition, but also rupture. To enact, then, is to realize a rupture in the given-ness of the social and to necessarily attend to the unexpected, unpredictable and unknown of the social and its equally enacted and re-worked projections of change.
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