Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Sociology) by Type "Thesis"
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Adolescent sexual behaviour and its relationship to familial environment and perceptions: a study of Cape Town, South Africa.
(2020)Worldwide, adolescents are exposed to an array of challenges that include unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). In South Africa, UNAIDS (2019) estimates ... -
An assessment of the sociology undergraduate curriculum at the four universities in the Eastern Seaboard region.
(1999)No abstract available. -
British emigration to Durban, South Africa : a sociological examination of Richardson's conceptual framework.
(1968)No abstract available. -
Child mobility, time use and social exclusion : reframing the discourses and debates.
(2013)This study asserts that the everyday life, daily activities and mobility interaction remains peripheral within the Sociology of Childhood and Mobilities in particular and sociology in general. This is not to say that there ... -
Churches and service delivery in South Africa : the Black Charismatic Church Ministries (BCCMs), as agents for service delivery in the Eastern Cape.
(2013)The research presented in this thesis is both a qualitative and quantitative case study of two Black Charismatic Church Ministries (BCCMs) from semi-urban areas in the Eastern Cape Province; one in uMdantsane Township in ... -
Climate governance through indigenous knowledge systems for sustainable development in Mutoko District of Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe.
(2020)Climate governance has over the years become a topical issue among scholars and policymakers. The concept has come into prominence as a result of the severe effects that climate change has on the livelihoods of communities ... -
Coping with political corporatism: state-international non-governmental organisation relations in post-2000 Zimbabwe.
(2021)This thesis focuses on the relations between International Non-governmental Organisations (INGOs) and the State in post-2000 Zimbabwe (2000–2009). This was an epoch depicting the democratisation process as posing a threat ... -
"The corporate guerillas" : class formation and the African corporate petty bourgeoisie in post-1973 South Africa.
(1991)No abstract available. -
A cross-generational study of the perception and construction of South Africans of Indian descent as foreigners by fellow citizens.
(2014)This thesis examined how the perceptions of South Africans of Indian descent as foreign, by fellow South African citizens, have changed or the extent to which they have remained the same from the time of the first arrival ... -
Culture contact : the Afrikaner as a minority in Durban : a study in network theory and practice.
(1981)No abstract available. -
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) ... -
The effect of the crisis in scholarly communication on university libraries in South Africa.
(2010)The study examined the effect the crisis in scholarly communication had on university libraries in South Africa. The crisis in scholarly communication or the 'serials' crisis as it is better known to librarians has affected ... -
The emergence of atheism in post-colonial South Africa.
(2017)This study aims to offer an account of the emergence of the phenomenon of atheism in South Africa and in so doing present a case for its admittance as a new and exciting field of research within the academy in the country. ... -
Employment and social inclusion: implications for young adults in Swaziland.
(2016)The motivation for the research came from seeing young people struggle to get that first job breakthrough to the extent of compromising their qualifications for any available job, including landing in precarious jobs without ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
An exploration of community perceptions and understanding of Rwandan Genocide Memorials.
(2012)This study aims to explore community perceptions and understandings of Rwandan Genocide Memorials. It used selected samples of ten genocide memorials that are scattered throughout the country. Those memorial sites are ... -
An exploration of poverty and socio-cultural factors on young people's access to higher education in Kogi State, Nigeria.
(2017)This thesis is based on research, which explores young people‟s access to higher education as shaped, by poverty and socio-cultural factors in Kogi state, north Central Nigeria. It is occasioned by the absence of young ... -
Exploring the experience of cyberstalking among female students in Tanzanian Universities: a case study of the University of Dar es Salaam.
(2021)With the current advancement in digitisation, cyberstalking is increasingly being recognised to be a serious global social challenge, especially among university students. This kind of online harassment is characterised ...