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Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans
Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
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| author | Puttergill, Charles Hugh |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1363 Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans Puttergill, Charles Hugh Bekker, S. B. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Identity Discourse Transition Race Theses -- Sociology Dissertations -- Sociology Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa Race -- Social aspects -- South Africa Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- South Africa Thesis (DPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. The uncertainty and insecurity generated by social transformation within local and global contexts foregrounds concerns with identity. South African society has a legacy of an entrenched racial order which previously privileged those classified ‘white’. The assumed normality in past practices of such an institutionalised system of racial privileging was challenged by a changing social, economic and political context. This dissertation examines the discourse of white middle-class South Africans on this changing context. The study draws on the discourse of Afrikaansspeaking and English-speaking interviewees living in urban and rural communities. Their discourse reveals the extent to which these changes have affected the ways they talk about themselves and others. There is a literature suggesting the significance of race in shaping people’s identity has diminished within the post-apartheid context. This study considers the extent to which the evasion of race suggested in a literature on whiteness is apparent in the discourse on the transformation of the society. By considering this discourse a number of questions are raised on how interviewees conceive their communities and what implication this holds for future racial integration. What is meant by being South African is a related matter that receives attention. The study draws the conclusion that in spite of heightened racial sensitivity, race remains a key factor in the identities of interviewees. Doctoral 2008-05-09T08:31:59Z 2010-06-01T08:19:36Z 2008-05-09T08:31:59Z 2010-06-01T08:19:36Z 2008-03 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1363 en Stellenbosch University 1640552 bytes application/pdf application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Identity Discourse Transition Race Theses -- Sociology Dissertations -- Sociology Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa Race -- Social aspects -- South Africa Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- South Africa Puttergill, Charles Hugh Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans |
| title | Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans |
| title_full | Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans |
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| title_short | Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans |
| title_sort | discourse on identity conversations with white south africans |
| topic | Identity Discourse Transition Race Theses -- Sociology Dissertations -- Sociology Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa Race -- Social aspects -- South Africa Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- South Africa |
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