LEADER 04236nam 22006615 450 001 9910253350403321 005 20240311132516.0 010 $a9783319403250 010 $a3319403257 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-40325-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000829677 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-40325-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4644567 035 $a(Perlego)3490874 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000829677 100 $a20160813d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSociology in South Africa $eColonial, Apartheid and Democratic Forms /$fby R. Sooryamoorthy 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XVI, 156 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aSociology Transformed,$x2947-5031 311 08$a9783319403243 311 08$a3319403249 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aChapter 1. South African Sociology in Context -- Chapter 2. The Beginning: Sociology in Colonial Times -- Chapter 3. In Apartheid Times, 1948-1993 -- Chapter 4. Sociology in Democratic South Africa, 1994-2015 -- Chapter 5. Sociological Research: Contemporary Characteristics -- Chapter 6. Current and Future Prospects. 330 $a'South Africa is a unique country redolent of a multitude of social challenges and tremulous with future possibilities in which local sociology is inevitably intertwined with its societal trajectory. R. Sooryamoorthy has assembled the story of South African sociology drawing extensively on the already published literature together with interesting and original scientometric data.' -Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci ofsociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology was professionally fragmented and divided along language and race lines. It was, however, able to flourish with the advent of democracy in 1994 and has become a unique academic movement. This insightful work will appeal to students and scholars of the social sciences, and all those interested in the history and society of South Africa. R. Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. He has taught at the Acharya Nagarjuna University and Loyola College of Social Sciences (both in India), the University of Calgary (Canada), and the Lulea University of Technology (Sweden). His publications include Science in Participatory Development (co-author), NGOs in India: A Cross-sectional Study (co-author) and Transforming Science in South Africa. 410 0$aSociology Transformed,$x2947-5031 606 $aSociology 606 $aEducational sociology 606 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government 606 $aEducation, Higher 606 $aEducation and state 606 $aSociology 606 $aSociology of Education 606 $aAfrican Politics 606 $aHigher Education 606 $aEducation Policy 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aEducational sociology. 615 0$aAfrica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aEducation, Higher. 615 0$aEducation and state. 615 14$aSociology. 615 24$aSociology of Education. 615 24$aAfrican Politics. 615 24$aHigher Education. 615 24$aEducation Policy. 676 $a301 700 $aSooryamoorthy$b R$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064826 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253350403321 996 $aSociology in South Africa$92541115 997 $aUNINA