Introduction: Labour studies in transition

Kyprianou, Anna; Wood, Geoffrey

doi:10.1080/21528586.2002.10419059

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“…The South African Sociological Association (SASA) provided a consistent platform for this debate, which continued to rage throughout the late 1990s into the mid-2000s. According to Ken Jubber (2007), sociologists engaged in this debate painted a mixed scenario of both a decline and a renewal of sociology in South Africa during this period (see Hendricks, 2004;Kyrianou and Wood, 2002;Sitas, 1997;Webster and Lipsig-Mumme, 2002;Webster and Von Holdt, 2005).…”

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Sociology and inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa: A critical review

Mapadimeng

2012

Current Sociology

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Sociology has been a subject of extensive debate in South Africa, especially over the last two decades. Central to the debate on sociology as a discipline and practice were efforts to document its history and paradigmatic shifts that characterized it, as well as topical themes that defined its research. One key observation in its evolution pointed to a historical shift from being a service discipline to the previous racially segregatory political regimes, especially between the early 1900s and 1960s, to a multi-paradigm discipline that challenged the racial order and inequalities in the 1970s onwards. This period marked the height of public sociology. Recent observations, however, especially in the post-apartheid period, projected a scenario of the discipline in a state of decline. Counter-evidence was nevertheless also presented suggesting not only the renewal of sociology in South Africa but also its active interest and involvement in the struggle against inequalities as part of the voices of the poor. This article calls these observations as the decline thesis and the renewal thesis, and contrasts them. The latter, I argue, is more compelling than the former. Notwithstanding this, the article argues however that the extent to which sociology in involved in struggles against inequalities is under question since public sociology, unlike in the 1970s and 1980s, is underdeveloped.

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Sociology and inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa: A critical review

Mapadimeng

2012

Current Sociology

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“…Others see matters differently. For example, Kyrianou and Wood (2002), Webster and Lipsig-Mumme (2002) and Webster and Von Holdt (2005) place labour developments in South Africa within the global context and find evidence of both decline and renewal in worker organizations. The post-1994 era has also seen a number of new contributions to labour history being published, such as Adler and Webster (2000), Buhlungu (2006), Cooper (1996) and Von Holdt (2003).…”

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Sociology in South Africa

Jubber

2007

International Sociology

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It was apparent at the 16th World Congress of Sociology held in South Africa in July 2006 that few sociologists from elsewhere in the world know much about South African sociology. This article provides an introduction and brief historical review of sociology in South Africa. Sociology started here in the early 1900s as a practical social science because of its contribution to the `native problem' and the `poor white problem'. Because of its practical value, departments of sociology were established at all South African universities from the 1930s onwards. The article briefly traces the histories of South Africa's professional sociological associations and journals. It identifies leading research concerns and comments on Apartheid and post-Apartheid research and publishing.

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Introduction: Labour studies in transition

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