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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Booyens, M. and Crause, E.J. 2012. Excluded from
education and work: perceptions of at risk youth. Social
Work: A Professional Journal for the Social Worker, 48(3):
255-274.
Sturgeon, A.S.P. 2012. Stigma and marginalisation: structural
violence and the impact on mental health. Social Work: A
Professional Journal for the Social Worker, 48(1): 58-67.
Taylor, V.E.D. 2012. Social protection for social justice. New
Agenda: South African Journal of Economic and Social
Policy, 46: 34-37.
Twikirize, J.M. and Obrien, C. 2012. Why Ugandan rural
households are opting to pay community health insurance
rather than use the free healthcare services. International
Journal of Social Welfare, 21: 66-78.
Doctoral dissertations
Gxubane, E. 2012. Exploration of residential diversion
within a restorative justice framework in the management
of young sex offenders in South Africa. 300pp. Supervised
by D. Cooper and R. Graser.
Master’s degrees (by research)
Campbell, P. 2012. A critical examination of the legislative
and policy framework governing ECD service provision in
South Africa since 1994. 201pp. Supervised by E. Atmore.
Dunne, R. 2012. Levels of alcohol intoxication: an
assessment of perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, practices
and breath alcohol levels. 88pp. Supervised by A.D.V. Smit.
Department of Sociology
Research Report 2012
Head of Department: Associate Professor
David Cooper
Departmental Profile
The department has a team of active researchers with growing
clusters of research groupings formed around staff members
and their Master’s and PhD students. During the past few years
a range of peer-reviewed journal articles but also a considerable
number of books, research and consultancy reports, and public
articles and presentations in the arena of national and local
debate have been produced.
Research projects currently underway or recently completed in
the Department, most with a South African and comparative
focus, include work on: land tenure reform and traditional
authorities; development of social movements; workers’
experiences of recent social change in South Africa; health
policies and medical facilities with particular orientation to the
HIV/Aids pandemic; democracy and inequality in comparative
perspective; industrial restructuring, unemployment, skills
development and job creation; export agriculture and
globalization; “race”, identity and diversity in South Africa;
dynamics of corporate culture and managerial identity;
organizational transformation; higher education transformation
and research development; pedagogics in higher education;
urbanisation, social dynamics and inequality; the nature of
sociology; issues in social research methods; globalization, it’s
meaning and impacts.
Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza’s NRF Research Chair is now in
its fifthyear of research activity and development. Professor
Jeremy Seekings continues to serve as Director of the Centre
for Social Science Research. Associate Professor XolelaMangcu
is a member of the Editorial Board of Acta Academica and
Associate Professor David Cooper serves on the Editorial
Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Social Science.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
4
Associate Professors
3
Senior Lecturers
4
Lecturers
2
Research Staff
1
Adjunct Associate Professors
2
Admin and Clerical Staff
2
Total
18
Students
Doctoral
35
Master’s
44
Honours
21
Undergraduates
2708
Total
2808
Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor David Cooper
Research development in higher education; students in the
South African higher education system; issues of engaged
scholarships at universities.
Professor Owen Crankshaw
Racial and class divisions; sociology of housing and labour
markets and the relationship between urbanisation,
housing and employment.