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Undergraduate sociology and social anthropology modules are taken as part of a degree programmes; each programme prescribes the specific modules…
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News & Events
OP-ED: Reclaiming the city and building an urban common in Woodstock
By Steven Robins. First published on The Daily Maverick on 6 January 2021. The occupation and repurposing of...
Luckymore Matenga (MA) receives book prize for the 2020 SASA students essay competition
Congratulations to Luckymore Matenga (MA) who has received a book prize for participating in the 2020 South...
Unsettled Futures: Precarity and the paradoxes of the post-apartheid project in the countryside.
Bernard Dubbeld was recently an Iso Lomso visiting fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study...
Scholarships and Bursaries: 2021
The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University is delighted to announce the...
Indexing Transformation Seminar: Scales of Justice
Dear Colleagues,Please join us on the 15th of October for our following Indexing Transformation...
Speaking truce to power: The benefits of deploying female soldiers on foreign peacekeeping missions
Peacekeeping operations, as opposed to warfare, require greater impartiality, sensitivity and empathy –...
OPINION: The rapid reopening of the economy does not empower women
Claire Lester, PhD Candidate in Sociology, published an article in the Daily Maverick:...
Transforming Transformation – book launch
Exhibition: Letters of Stone
The exhibition "Letters of Stone" tells the story of the fate of the Jewish Robinski family, based on the...
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