Showing posts with label Ari Sitas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ari Sitas. Show all posts
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Class, Nation, Ethnicity in Natal's black working class
Sitas, Ari (1990) Class, Nation, Ethnicity in Natal's black working class. Collected Seminar Papers. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 38 . pp. 257-278. ISSN 0076-0773
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Click here to download this paper in pdf.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Reconstruction or Transformation
by Ari Sitas, The 1995 Rick Turner Memorial Lecture, Republished in Theoria
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
The Making of the 'Comrades' Movement in Natal, 1985-91
by Ari Sitas, 1992
Sociologists have largely discussed 'comrades' or 'amaqabane' within the parameters of two broad social indicators: black youth unemployment and 'anomic' behaviour. The first indicator, unemployment, has destroyed the life-chances and aspirations of the majority of youths. Studies like those of the Inkatha Institute emphasise how unemployment led to frustration and how that turned into aggression and violence. The second indicator is that of 'normlessness', the breakdown of values, the breakdown of a communal social solidarity and the anti- social actions that follow. The 'normlessness' school is much favoured by sociologists. Elements of a Durkheimean conception of 'anomie' based on the breakdown of social solidarity, norms, and the family are presented as definitive of black youth behaviour. In what follows I will argue against both indicators.
Sociologists have largely discussed 'comrades' or 'amaqabane' within the parameters of two broad social indicators: black youth unemployment and 'anomic' behaviour. The first indicator, unemployment, has destroyed the life-chances and aspirations of the majority of youths. Studies like those of the Inkatha Institute emphasise how unemployment led to frustration and how that turned into aggression and violence. The second indicator is that of 'normlessness', the breakdown of values, the breakdown of a communal social solidarity and the anti- social actions that follow. The 'normlessness' school is much favoured by sociologists. Elements of a Durkheimean conception of 'anomie' based on the breakdown of social solidarity, norms, and the family are presented as definitive of black youth behaviour. In what follows I will argue against both indicators.
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