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Browsing Sociology by Type "Article"
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(Bridgewater State College, 2022-02)Efforts at guaranteeing gender equality and women’s empowerment in Nigeria reached its crescendo with the approval of the National Gender Policy (NGP) in 2006 by the Federal Executive Council, which came into effect in ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Time poverty remains a critical issue for water access across the globe. However, research on the time spent for water collection and the factors associated with collection time inequalities and access heterogeneities is ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-26)South Africa’s transition to democracy coincided and interlinked with massive global shifts, including the fall of communism and the rise of western capitalist triumphalism. Late capitalism operates through paradoxical ...
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(Emerald, 2023-06)PURPOSE : This paper illustrates how Guba and Lincoln’s parallel criteria for establishing trustworthiness, can be adapted and applied to qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems. It provides insights ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-09)Studies of inequalities in child health have given limited attention to household structure and headship. The few existing reports on child outcomes in male and female-headed households have produced inconsistent results. ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Post-Apartheid South Africa shifted to a culture of consumption, originating with a transition to a neoliberal society [Sana, V. (2022). Bits of bytes and bites of bits: Instagram and the gendered performance of food ...
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(Rural Outreach Programme, 2007)About 25% of all children under 5 years in South Africa are severely malnourished. The objective of this study was to assess the comparative effect of person-related and household characteristics on nutritional status ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2016)This paper is concerned with the transnational political activities of Congolese nationals in Pretoria. The relationship between the migrants is marked by ethno-regional and political rivalry between two groups living ...
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(Springer, 2024-08)Although higher education students have been identified as one of the social groups most affected by the impact of COVID-19, higher education literature appears to focus more on documenting implications for teaching and ...
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(Cogent OA, 2020-01)Women in legal practice in Zimbabwe are subjected to cultural and structural restrictions in the cause of their work. In this context, the paper argues that women are not passive recipients of these challenges but come ...
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(African Renaissance, 2024-12)This paper provides a critical perspective on the decolonisation of children's rights. The research is a comparative analysis between the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) and the United Nations, ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-06)This study engages the discourse of ‘eminent domain’ – the power of the state to expropriate communally or individually owned properties for ‘public good’ – as it applies in the mineral extractive sector in resource-rich ...
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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007)Since 1994 disability organisations, like other organisations in the country, have had to face significant transformation. While the disability sector achieved major success in including issues surrounding recognition of ...
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(Higher Education South Africa, 2019)This paper makes a single point: that the goal of institutional diversity falls short of the goal of equity in higher education. Put differently, while the margins for diversity have increasingly been displaced and dislocated, ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2021-01)This study examined the effects of a declining economy on the profession of chartered accountants (CAs) in Zimbabwe. The study adopted a qualitative approach using a pragmatic grounded theory design. Primary data were ...
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(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-07-10)This qualitative study focused on employment barriers and opportunities faced by youths with albinism. Despite extensive legislation outlawing discrimination of persons with disabilities, persons with albinism continue ...
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(Wiley, 2024-10)A wide and established body of research evidence has consistently shown how the effective provision of social protection benefits and the promotion of gender equality are among the key tools for addressing shocks, ...
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(CODESRIA, 2008)The key determinant of young Namibian women’s contraceptive use emerging out of this study was whether (or not) they communicated on matters of sex and reproduction with their mothers. The quantitative data analysis revealed ...
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(SOAS University of London, 2021-08)Employer crackdowns on trade unionisation, neoliberal governments’ gutting of trade union protections, and increasing bureaucratisation and risk-averseness of unions themselves, have led to declines in traditional trade ...
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(Unisa Press, 2021)Currently, our social, cultural, and existential experiences are being very directly influenced by our relationships to food. The health, economic, social, and psychological consequences of pathogens originating in industrial ...
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