Posted on December 20, 2024
Department of Sociology closure notice
Posted on September 07, 2024
The Department of Sociology is sharing a call for applications for the Dr Farai Maunganidze Memorial Registration Bursary
Posted on December 22, 2023
The Department of Sociology is closed from 03 to 18 January 2024.
Posted on December 22, 2023
On 12 December 2023, Janis Grobbelaar, University of Pretoria Emeritus Professor of Sociology passed away at the age of 74. The acting Dean, Prof Africa, has asked me to write a few words on Janis. I am honoured to do so, having known her for 38 years, first as a student and later as a...
Posted on September 05, 2023
The Department of Sociology congratulates all our graduates during the 2023 Autumn and Spring graduations and wishes them success with their future endeavours.
Posted on April 04, 2023
On 23 March 2023, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) hosted the launch of the book, The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa (2022) at the Javett-UP Arts Centre.
Posted on August 24, 2022
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Posted on August 08, 2022
Prof Zitha Makomane (Sociology) was awarded a Diverse Black African research grant by the Alliance for African Partnership.
Posted on May 11, 2022
The Sociology Department celebrates its graduates
Posted on March 16, 2022
Prof. Alf Nilsen (Sociology) on "what role the Islamophobic conspiracy theory ‘love jihad’ plays in the politics of Hindu nationalist statecraft in India today", The Nordic Asia Podcast.
Posted on February 21, 2022
'In India the government of the ruling Bharatiya Janata party led by the prime minister Narendra Modi is facing a tough test in the state of Uttar Pradesh'. By Prof. Alf Nielsen on SAfm Sunrise.
Posted on January 14, 2021
Mmatshilo Motsei was awarded an honorary doctorate in community psychology by the University of Zululand for her integrative work with women and men. This is not the first award she has received for community psychology, and among her accolades is an award from the Department of Psychology at the...
Posted on December 21, 2020
Dr. Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso, a sociology postdoctoral researcher, is ICRW's 2020 Paula Kantor Award winner. Watch the talk on abortion seekers’ and providers’ narrated experiences of pre-abortion counselling in the public health sector in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Posted on December 21, 2020
Mmatshilo Tumelo Motsei, a Sociology doctoral student, was awarded an honorary doctorate in Community Psychology by the University of Zululand for her work towards the integrative healing work with women and men in communities. Ms Motsei is the founder of Agisanang Domestic Abuse Prevention...
Posted on October 23, 2020
Prof. Debby Bonnin and Prof. Catherine Burns are leading efforts to raise money for Dr. Farai Maunganidze's cancer treatment. Please read the attached newsletter and join the efforts.
Posted on October 02, 2020
Congratulations to everyone who graduated today! Dr. Justice Medzani was awarded his PhD (Sociology). The title of Dr. Medzani's study is Intimate Partner Abuse and Male Identity: Experiences and Perspective of Abused Men in Zimbabwe. He was supervised by Professor Zitha Dewah-Mokomane. Dr....
Posted on March 27, 2020
On 31 December last year, as China first alerted the WHO about several cases of unusual pneumonia in the port city of Wuhan, India was in the throes of the largest protests the country had witnessed since Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) first took...
Posted on December 14, 2019
The Department of Sociology will be closed from 17 December 2019 to 03 January 2020.
Posted on November 28, 2019
Zitha Mokomane is an Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria.
Posted on March 08, 2018
Mr Songezo Nomvete, Ph.D Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria presented the seminar. Not much research has been done on families of mineworkers on how they negotiate their daily lives in the absence of a father figure who is often head of the household. Furthermore, there is...
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