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Title:The Rise and Fall of South African Sociology
Author:Hendricks, FredISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:10
Issue:1
Pages:86-97
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:South Africa
Southern Africa
Subjects:sociology
Bibliography/Research
Labor and Employment
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/afrisocirevi.10.1.86
Abstract:In present-day South Africa, there has been a massive exodus of sociologists from academic departments into State departments or into lucrative consultancies providing social recipes to the government and big business. The discipline has not navigated the postapartheid terrain with quite the same confidence as it had challenged apartheid. This paper attempts to chart a course towards a relevant sociology which is committed to undoing the horrors of apartheid and concerned to preserve and promote the basic precepts of the discipline. The paper is divided into five sections. First, it outlines an abiding schism within sociology between its European origins and its African location. It goes on to elaborate on the demise of debates within the discipline. Then it surveys the staff and the course content in sociology departments and, finally, it proposes a way forward for the discipline to reestablish its relevance. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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