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Title: | Relative deprivation: a component of transformed political awareness in Cape Town, 1976-1983 |
Author: | Groenewald, Johann |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 31-47 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Coloureds political action |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589348808704895 |
Abstract: | The image of coloured people in South Africa in the pre-Sowetan period was that they were loyal to whites rather than to blacks. This view was supported by the results of a few studies carried out in the early 1970s. These led to the conclusion that the socioeconomic development and upliftment of the coloured people would have a peaceful rather than a politicizing effect on them. This paper presents the results of two surveys carried out in 1976 and 1983 among coloured people in Cape Town, and which focused on relative deprivation (referring to the subjective element in the experience of deprivation). After an outline of the sample characteristics (place of birth, sex, age, home language, religion, occupation, and education) the results of a factor analysis performed on the answers given to 31 items are presented, producing 11 components of relative deprivation. To describe the different meaning of relative deprivation for different people, the standard scores of the components are presented. Finally, the correlations are given between socioeconomic status, age and the incidence of relative deprivation according to component. One of the conclusions is that relative deprivation amongst coloured people is almost unrelated to age and class. The government thus was wrong to suppose that upliftment of the coloured people would have a peaceful effect. These findings are commensurate with the much broader participation of coloureds in the waves of unrest after Soweto. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |