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Browsing Research Articles (Sociology) by Title
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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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(Sage, 2025)All democracies wrestle with the problem of representation. Most people intuitively understand this through electoral politics, but this connection is less clear when we consider bureaucracy. And when it comes to civil-military ...
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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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Against imperial social policy : recasting Mkandawire’s transformative ideas for Africa’s liberation (Sage, 2023-05)Forty years have passed since the implementation of the pernicious neoliberal structural reforms on the African continent in 1981. If 2021 marked a 40-year commemoration of a diabolical neocolonial project such as ...
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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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(Elsevier, 2017-03)Against the background of increasing international calls for the development and implementation of age-appropriate programmes that address both quality and access issues to improve adolescent and youth health, this paper ...
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Between market, state and society : labour codes of conduct in the southern African garment industry (Routledge, 2011-12)This paper compares the way garment factory workers in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho experience the interaction between mechanisms for inspecting labour codes of conduct and government functions and trade unions. ...
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(Routledge, 2024)The late 20th century saw a phenomenal integration of the production and consumption of clothing between the Global North and the Global South. While global integration of mass manufactured garments has been discussed at ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Social media have created electronic media platforms like Instagram that enables snapshots of offline lives to be commemorated online. The very nature of social media platforms allows for the accepted limits of humanity ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Rachelle Chadwick has been a crucial voice in theorising and exploring obstetric violence in the global south, especially in South Africa. Chadwick has published widely on reproductive politics, birth narratives, critical ...
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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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(Routledge, 2021)The concept of ‘obstetric violence’ has emerged as an important legal and activist tool in the global quest for humane, equitable, and respectful maternal and intrapartum care. Over the last decade or so, the term has been ...
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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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(Routledge, 2024)Pregnancy capacity, and gestational desire are shared by people of different genders and sexes. Yet, gestational embodiment and subjectivity are feminized in the normative cisheteropatriarchal pregnancy imaginary where ...
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(Sage, 2024-01)Since Huntington’s seminal work The Soldier and the State, the scholarship on civil–military relations in the American context has often emphasized the need for a professional military to maintain an apolitical stance and ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Although foreign policy between great power patrons and their client states is often studied, those of client states and third states within the context of patron-client relations receive little attention. We address this ...
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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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(Routledge, 2020)A large body of academic literature germane to service delivery protests has documented area-specific cases of protests and their targets. In the main, the focus of these studies has been the failures of the ruling African ...
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