South African Social Attitudes: Changing Times, Diverse Voices

A country’s attitudinal profile is as much a part of its social reality as its demographic makeup, culture, and distinctive social patterns. It helps to provide a nuanced picture of a country’s circumstances, its continuities and changes, its democratic health, and how it feels to live there. It also helps to measure the country’s progress towards the achievement of its economic, social and political goals based on the measurement of both objective and subjective realities.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

168mm x 240mm

Pages:

408

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2117-8

Publish Year:

2006

Rights:

World Rights

Introduction Udesh Pillay

Race, class and politics

Issues of democracy and governance John Daniel, Roger Southall & Sarah Dippenaar
Voting behaviour and attitudes in a post-apartheid South Africa Sanusha Naidu
Multicultural national identity and pride Arlene Grossberg, Jar Struwig & Udesh Pillay
Identity and race relations Marlene Roefs

Poverty, inequality and service delivery

The happy transition? Attitudes to poverty and inequality after a decade after democracy Benjamin Roberts
Slipping through the Net: digital and other communication divides within South Africa Zakes Langa, Pieter Conradie & Benjamin Roberts
The vexed question: Interruptions, cut-offs and water services in South Africa David Hemson & Kwame Owusu-Ampomah
What do South Africans think about education? Mbithi wa Kivilu & Sen Morrow
A healthy attitude? Chris Desmond & Gerard Boyce

Societal values

Partner violence Andrew Dawes, Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki, Zuyhar Kafaar & Linda Richter
Rights or wrongs? An exploration of moral values Stephen Rule & Bongiwe Mncwango

Conclusion

The state of the people Mark Orkin & Roger Jowell

Dr Udesh Pillay is the Executive Director of the Urban, Rural, and Economic Development Research Programme at the HSRC. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota and an MA in Geography (cum laude) from the University of Natal.

Before joining the HSRC, Dr Pillay was the head of the Delimitation and Planning Directorate of the Independent Electoral Commission. Dr Pillay has previously lectured at the University of Natal and has consulted widely, including sustained involvement in the development of the white papers on urban development and local government.

Mr Ben Roberts is a Chief Researcher in the HSRCs Integrated Rural and Regional Development (IRRD) Research Programme and the Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN). He has a BSc in Town and Regional Planning (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (Development) (cum laude) from the University of Natal.

Before joining the HSRC, he was a research fellow in the Population and Poverty Studies Programme at the School of Development Studies at the University of Natal.

Dr Stephen Rule is a former Surveys Director in the Surveys, Analysis, Modelling and Mapping (SAMM) Research Programme, now part of the Knowledge Systems (KS) Research Programme