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Title

South African social attitudes : changing times, diverse voices / edited by Udesh Pillay, Benjamin Roberts & Stephen Rule.

Publication

Cape Town : HSRC Press ; Chicago : Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group, 2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Pillay, Udesh.
• Roberts, Benjamin.
• Rule, Stephen P.
• Roberts, Benjamin, 1974-

Description

xvi, 391 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

A country{u2019}s attitudinal profile is as much a part of its social reality as are its demographic make-up, its culture and its distinctive social patterns. It helps to provide a nuanced picture of a country{u2019}s circumstances, its continuities and changes, its democratic health, and how it feels to live there. It also helps to measure the country's progress towards the achievement of its economic, social and political goals, based on the measurement of both 'objective' and 'subjective' realities. South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices is a new series aimed at providing an analysis of attitudes and values towards a wide range of social and political issues relevant to life in contemporary South African society. As the series develops, we hope that readers will be able to draw meaningful comparisons with the findings of previous years and thus develop a richer picture and deeper appreciation of changing South African social values. This, the first volume in the series, presents the public's responses during extensive nation-wide interviews conducted by the HSRC in late 2003. The findings are analysed in three thematic sections: the first provides an in-depth examination of race, class and politics; the second gives a critical assessment of the public's perceptions of poverty, inequality and service delivery, and the last explores societal values such as partner violence and moral attitudes. South African Social Attitudes is essential reading for anyone seeking a guide to contemporary social or political issues and debates. It should prove an indispensable tool not only for government policy-makers, social scientists and students, but also for general readers wishing to gain a better understanding of their fellow citizens and themselves.

Subject

• Public opinion > South Africa
• South Africa > Public opinion. > 1994-

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online in pdf format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Issues of democracy and governance / John Daniel, Roger Southall and Sarah Dippenaar -- Voting behaviour and attitudes in a post-apartheid South Africa / Sanusha Naidu -- Multicultural national identity and pride / Arlene Grossberg, Jaré Struwig and Udesh Pillay -- Identity and race relations / Marlene Roefs -- The happy transition? Attitudes to poverty and inequality after a decade of democracy / Benjamin Roberts -- Slipping through the net: digital and other communication divides within South Africa / Zukes Langa, Pieter Conradie and Benjamin Roberts -- The 'vexed question': interruptions, cut-offs and water services in South Africa / David Hemson and Kwame Owusu-Ampomah -- What do South Africans think about education? / Mbithi wa Kivilu and Seán Morrow -- A healthy attitude? / Chris Desmond and Gerard Boyce -- Partner violence / Andrew Dawes ...[et al.] -- Rights or wrongs? An exploration of moral values / Stephen Rule and Bongiwe Mncwango -- Ten years into democarcy: how South Africans view their world and themselves / Mark Orkin and Roger Jowell.

ISBN

• 0796921172 (pbk.)
• 9780796921178 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007332249

OCLC

• 68554489
• 213449368

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library