Soc1005s Guides d'étude, Notes de cours & Résumés

The sociology of race and racialisation. A collection of all the info needed for this section, including notes from lectures, readings and the textbook.

A collection of all the info needed for this section, including notes from lectures, readings and the textbook.

summary of the education section of soc1005s information taken from the textbook and my lecture note

summary of all the relevant information on families section. information taken from textbook and my lecture notes

In this essay I will outline the effect of race, class and gender on the structure of families in contemporary South Africa. Family structures are influenced by the history of racial segregation in South Africa, household income, culture and the neighbourhood that they live in. Following an description of the structure of families in South African households, I will briefly consider how care is provided to children and families by the state and market. South Africa has a comprehensive social sec...

Educational outcomes in South Africa are highly unequal and reflect inequalities across socio-economic classes and racial groups. This essay will explore education-related causes of the reproduction of inequality across generations. Bourdieu’s ‘theory of practice’ can help to understand how structural inequalities reproduce themselves through education. The causes can be explained from either side of the learner-teacher dichotomy. Approaching the question from the side of the learner, one ...

Community care workers (CCWs) perform a vital service in the health care system. The work that they do provides substantial cost savings to the health care system and governments rely on their work, which can be unpaid, to sustain public health services. Despite the important role that community health care has within the primary health care system, the occupation is not well recognised and seldom has fringe benefits. Salaries remain low and CCWs experience poor working conditions with numerous ...

This essay investigates social determinants of health, specifically looking at non-communicable diseases, and argues that structural interventions in the economy and society are necessary to reduce the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Sociologists study health demographics because patterns of health change across classes, cultures, genders and countries. Disease does not have solely biological causes, but is also determined by factors such as the socio-cultural environment, econom...