Sociology Seminar Series

Posted on April 07, 2016

Social Inequality In Capitalist Societies: The lecture introduced a new approach to inequality based on thousands of interviews on four continents. It argues that global capitalism creates a specific class structure, which is at once invisible and symbolically reproduced. In some respects, this...

Sociology News

Posted on October 16, 2015

Planisa: Mineworkers and their engagement with the fictional nature of HIV/AIDS. This paper explored the relationship between culture, capitalism and power in the context of HIV/AIDS interventions run by the business unit of a mining industrial company in a South African town.

‘DIABETES HEALTH BELIEFS’ AND EVERYDAY SELF-CARE

Posted on September 10, 2015

Paper presented by Dr Mariana Pietersen, Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria. In this presentation, the diabetes health beliefs that emerged from a qualitative population-based research study at seven public primary health care clinics in the district of Tshwane, Gauteng Province,...