Schwarzer, Beatrix (Goethe University) The role of identity in the South Africa Transition process.
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 27
G 03
G 28
15:30 - 16:00
TEA
16:00- 18:00
18:00- 18:30
Session 3: Special session Sociology: Defining the discipline
Chair: Simon Mapadimeng (UKZN)
Jimi Adesina (Rhodes)
Peter Alexander (UJ)
Jide Oliyede (UWC)
In Memory of Charlton Koen: young academic and SASA member
Karin Koen, sister of Charlton Koen, short address'
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
19: 30
Banquet
Elgro Hotel
TUESDAY: 26 JUNE 2007
TIME
SESSION
VENUE
08:00 - 10:00
Session 4 Plenary 2: Identity, Livelihood and Social Reconstruction
Chair: Simon Mapadimeng (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Gerhard Mare (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Sarah Ssali (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
10:30 - 12:30
Session 5 Split sessions
5A Economic and industrial Sociology
Chair: Bennie Linde (UNW)
Matshedisho, Knowledge Rajohane (Wits)
“They can even work for R5 a day”: Minimum wage application in the informal sector
Bankole, Adeyinka Oladayo (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria)
Dynamics of Mode of Organizing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in the Era of Economic Liberalization: A Study of SMEs in Ibadan, Nigeria
Binikos, Elli (University of Johannesburg)
Sounds of silence: organisational trust and decisions to blow the whistle.
Makwembere, Sandra (Rhodes University)
Government and the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) post-apartheid: public sector industrial relations in the context of Alliance politics 5B Crime, violence and security
Chair: Anton Senekal (UJ)
Smart, Alastair (CUT)
Soldiers of fortune: quo vadis after the closure of the commando's?
Mashike, Lephophotho (Wits)
Born Weak: Accounting for the Absence of Party-Guerrilla Veterans’ Coalition in a Democratic South Africa.
Tamukamoyo, Hamadziripi (SWOP, Wits)
Throw out the trash: Understanding Zimbabwe's 2005 urban clean up operation as a moral panic
Heinecken, Lindy (University of Stellenbosch) & Noelle van der Waag Stellenbosch (Faculty of Military Science, University of Stellenbosch)
Women “at" war: The intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality within the South African Military context
5C Aspects of HIV/AIDS
Chair: CJ Van Zyl Schalenkamp (UJ)
Mba, Chuks (University of Ghana, Legon)
HIV/Aids And Survival Challenges In Sub-Saharan Africa: An Illustration With Ghana And South Africa.
Molapo, Sepetla (Wits)
Mine migrant workers\' Understandings of HIV/AIDS: A critical realist perspective
Nyawasha, Tawanda Sydesky (University of Fort Hare) Citizenship and Social Capital:The impact of social capital in HIV/AIDS in South Africa
5D Media, culture and society
Chair: Marlize Rabe (Unisa)
Walton, Theresa & Wilson, Kathryn (Kent State University) Invested in Apartheid?: A Critical Analysis of US Media Coverage of Sport and Economic Sanctions
Martinez-Mullen, Claudia (UKZN)
Sport and Professional Football as a Space of Reproduction and Resistance within South Africa
Saramandif, Marie Claire Virginie (UKZN)
'Do we live stories or just tell them?' 5E Political sociology and law
Chair: Michael Neocosmos (University of Pretoria)
Franco Barchiesi (Ohio State University)
“Schooling Bodies to Hard Work”. The Post-apartheid State’s Developmentalist Discourse and Its Moral Constructions of Welfare
Matsinhe, David Mario (University of Alberta, Canada) Bodies, nation building and social spaces in South Africa
6A Conceptualising Development: theory in local contexts
Chair: Monty Roodt (Rhodes University )
Mpolokeng, Gaopalelwe, (NWU-Mafikeng Campus)
Rostow’s Five Stages Of Economic Growth: Challenges In The Application To Social Reconstruction In South Africa Development
Mapadimeng , Mokong Simon, (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Confucianism and Economic Development in the East Asian Region – Implications for the Ubuntu/Botho Debate in post-apartheid South Africa.
Akpan, Wilson, (University of Fort Hare )
Natural Resources, Social Exploitation and the Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Contending “Notions” of Nigeria’s Niger Delta 6B Higher education studies
Chair: David Cooper (University of Cape Town)
Monepya, Kabelo Ben (University of Limpopo)
Students' protests: a question of access and success for social reconstruction.
Lundall, Paul (Private)
The problem of graduate unemployment in South Africa: from measurement to metaphysics
Odhav, Kiran (North West University)
Implementing Equity at North West University: renewal or endgame?
Bredenkamp, I.M. (University of the Free State) Engagement: Universities in Society
6C Religion
Chair: Alastair Smart (CUT)
McDonald, Zahraa (University of Johannesburg) Madrassahs: Religious or Cultural Institution
Mosselson, Adian (Wits)
‘Lubavitch vs. Progressive: Religious Power in the Johannesburg Jewish Community’
Begg, Rashid (University of Stellenbosch)
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Rassismus 6D Experiences of post-apartheid transformation in SA
Chair: Wilson Akpan (University of Fort Hare)
Sutherland, Charlotte (University of Pretoria)
Afrikaner Men's Experiences of Post Apartheid.
Park, Yoon Jung (UJ)
Chinese South Africans in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Impact of Exclusion on Identity and 'Home'
Duma, Vusumzi (University of Fort Hare)
Factors influencing public sentiment towards immigrants in South Africa : An Analysis of Data from the IDASA Political Culture Study.
Imoudu, Peter (Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria)
Social Policy & the Transformation of the South African Society: Challenges & Opportunities. 6E Political sociology and law
Chair: Michael Neocosmos (University of Pretoria)
Vyas-Doorgapersad, Shikha (North West University (Vaal Triangle campus)
Role of Society in Social Reconstruction
Chakuwamba, Antony Kapesi (Fort Hare University) Housing Delivery in Post-Apartheid South Africa.Have the Poor Really Been Empowered? Evaluating the Perfomance of Nkonkobe Municipality.
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
G 27
G 28
G 03
G 17
15:30 - 16:00
TEA
16:00 - 18:00
Session 7: Special session: SASA/NRF Workshop: Feedback from task team and the way forward
Peter Alexander
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
WEDNESDAY: 27 JUNE 2007
TIME
SESSION
VENUE
08:00 - 10:00
Session 8: Special session: South African Sociology and Academic Freedom
Towards the cross road: Affirmative Action and its impact on South African multi-cultural citizenship
Geoffrey Modisha (HSRC)
The growth of the black middle class and its impact on the middle class configuration in post-apartheid South Africa.
Tapiwa, Chagonda (University of Johannesburg).
The Response of the working class in Harare to the Economic Crisis, 1997 – 2007
Xaba, JN (University of Stellenbosch)
Black economic empowerment and the formation of black capitalists: A case study of two organizations in both the public and private sector in the Western Cape Province. 9B Methodology
Chair: Ken Jubber (UCT)
Uys, Tina (UJ)
Determining research quality: The NRF rating system
Rieker, Mark Ivan (UKZN)
Rethinking Ethical Clearance: Student Fieldworkers as a vulnerable population
Jaffray, Penny (University of Fort Hare)
Descriptive Narrative Research Analysis and Chronic Illness: Making sense of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
Problematizing the conceptualization and measuring of the informal economy. 9C Higher Education studies
Chair: Alastair Smart (CUT)
Lewins, Kezia (Wits)
Who is at the chalk face? A twenty year overview of the South African academic labour market
Cooper, David (University of Cape Town)
"Theoretical Issues of Research into Masters Student Retention and Success"
Bolsmann, Chris (Aston University)
The recruitment of international students to universities in South Africa and England: Different discourse, similar rationales?
Smuts, Letitia (University of Johannesburg)
Careers with Sociology: Experiences of UJ Sociology students 9D Rural sociology
Chair:
Ngcebetsha, Tembeka (University of Fort Hare) Understanding women's land righs in post-apartheid South Africa: The Case of the Tshezi community in the Eastern Cape Province.
Igbatayo, Samuel (Igbinedion University, Okada, Nigeria) Landlessness & the Challenges of Rural Livelihood in South Africa
Mpolokeng, Gaopalelwe (NWU-Mafikeng Campus)
Biodiesel and social reconstruction: The Jatropha project in Modimola, North West Province
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
G 27
G 28
G 17
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH
Library Gallery
13:30 - 15:30
Session 10: Split Session
10A Economic and industrial sociology
Chair: Nsolo Mijere (Walter Sisulu University)
Heinecken, Lindy (University of Stellenbosch) & Michelle Nel (Faculty of Military Science, University of Stellenbosch) Military Unions and the right to collective bargaining: Insights from the South African Experience.
C de W van Wyk (North West University (Vaal Triangle campus)
HIV/Aids-Related Stigma, Discrimination And Workers’ Rights In South Africa
Chisaka, Janet K. C. (Rhodes University)
A Biographical Disruption due to AIDS and Generational Poverty: Women’s
Experiences
Mapule Maema (Rhodes University) “The Quality Of Working Life Of Women At Pick ‘n Pay: Grahamstown
10B Religion
Chair: Tessa Dooms (NWU)
Frahm-Arp, Maria (Wits)
Understanding the Corporate Experience: How some Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches are helping young Professional Women Manage their Success
Graham, Lauren (Wits)
Healthworlds – towards a critical development theory of health
Reilly, Tandi & Molapo, Sepetla (Wits)
Transformations of the Traditional; The impact of modernity on traditional healers’ conceptions of well-being
Ibn Hyman, Sundjata (Abti American University of Nigeria)
Maiduguri al-Majirai: The Role of Street Boys in Ethno-Religious Violence in Borno State (Nigeria) 10C Health
Chair: Cecilia van Zyl-Schalekamp (UJ)
Thokozani Xaba (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Disowned Practice: Making sense of the practice of indigenous medicines and responses to National Surveys
Mariana Snyman (University of Pretoria)
The social factors involved in diabetes mellitus self-care management: the application of the health belief model.
Nolunkcwe Jennifer Bomela (University of Pretoria)
An anlysis of childhood malnutrition in three Central Asian Republics.
Substance Use and Sexual Behaviour among Adolescents in North-West Province of South Africa 10D Urban sociology and migration
Chair : Freek Cronje (UNW)
Mba, Chuks (University of Ghana, Legon) Urbanization In Ghana: A Call For An Establishment For Research-Based Planning And Management Of Metropolitan Areas
Groenewald, Liela (University of Johannesburg)
Recent debates on urban citizenship in Africa - towards a typology
Palamuleni, Martin Enock (North West University, Mafikeng Campus)
Some patterns of Internal Migration in North West Provinces 1996-2001 10E Social theory
Keim, Wiebke (Institute for Sociology, Freiburg University) South Africa’s counter hegemonic potential in international sociology
Graham, Lauren (Wits)
Embourgeoisiement of the student body and its effects on sociology lecturers
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
G 28
G 03
G 27
G 17
15:30 - 16:00
TEA
16:00 - 18:00
Session 11 SASA AGM
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 20
19:00- 23:00
Cocktail
Library Gallery
THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2007
TIME
SESSION
VENUE
08:00 - 10:00
Session 12: Split sessions
12A Violence, Conflict and Security:
Chair: Lindy Heinecken (University of Stellenbosch)
Du Plessis, Inus (Department of Intelligence Sciences and Analytical Studies at SANAI)
Open Source Intelligence In South Africa
Prudence Makhura, Zahraa McDonald (Centre for Sociological Research at UJ)
The Universality of low Reporting: UJ Students’ Experiences of Crime
Senekal, Anton (University of Johannesburg)
A sociological perspective on the phenomenon of bullying in the workplace 12B Economic and industrial Sociology
Convenor: Lewins, Kezia (Wits)
Tumelo Justice Lepheane (University of Johannesburg) Land Redistribution and its impacts on Agri-Bee: The case of Calcom PTY LTD, Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
David van Wyk (Mudjadji Trading)
Gold versus platinum: a sociological perspective
Mijere, Nsolo J N (Walter Sisulu University)
The role of informal cross border traders in the creation of SADC regional common market 12C “Minority reports” on Important Issues
A Lack of Environmental Awareness: Will it be left until it is too late?
Tredoux, Marius Jacobus (University of Stellenbosch)
The factors that influence the quality of life of the elderly in old age homes: a Social Gerontological study
Van Zyl Schalenkamp, CJ (UJ)
SA Sociologists At The Party, But Not Eating 12D Environmental Issues in Development/Regional Development
Chair: M.P. Mokhahlame (Univ. of Venda)
Roodt, Monty, (Rhodes University )
An assessment of the Maputo Development Corridor as a catalyst for regional cooperation in tourism between Mpumalanga and Southern Mozambique.
Reilly, Tandi, (University of the Witwatersrand)
Environmental Impact Assessment as a Development Tool: A case study of Mohale Dam
Ikechukwu Umejesi and Akpan, Wilson, (University of Fort Hare )
Revisiting the Colliery: The Quest for a Reviewed Compensational Regime in Nigeria’s Coal Sub-Sector 12 E South Africa, social transformation and the Class discourse
Chair: Vusumzi, Duma (University of Fort Hare)
Ceruti, Claire & Mudau, Rudzani (UJ)
How do people see class in South Africa after Apartheid?
Ceruti, Claire (UJ)
Is the concept of the reserve army of labour useful for understanding Soweto’s unemployed?
Serote, Abraham Chupe (University of Cape Town) Blackness and capitalism in racist South Africa: How 'race' mediated and sustained the development of capitalism
Phadi, Mosa Martha (University of Johannesburg)
The Identity of Black Middle Class in Soweto
Economic Sciences (EW)
G 27
G 20
G 28
G 17
G 03
10:30 - 12:30
Session 13: Plenary 3: Teaching sociology in South Africa
Chair: David Copper (UCT)
Louise Hagemeyer (University of the Witwatersrand)
