Prescriptive beliefs pertaining to justice delineate the fair outcomes that an individual should receive. In contrast, descriptive beliefs pertaining to justice reflect expectations regarding the outcomes an individual ...

Theorists acknowledge the possibility of multiple group identification where groups are imbedded in hierarchical structures that can change as the environment changes. This article investigates national, subnational, and ...

In contrast to the optimistic belief that a new dispensation would lead to reconciliation and harmony in the heterogeneous South African population, the post-1994 period has been characterised by an exodus of highly skilled ...

The recent flourishing in discourses on identity in the social sciences as well as the fact that struggles of identity has become the paradigmatic form of social and political conflict in the modern world, forms the ...

This article discusses a study in which the relationships between contact frequency, experiences of intergroup contact, a number of demographic variables and intergroup attitudes were investigated. A telephone survey was ...

Worldwide globalisation has led to the anglicisation of higher education. This is also the case in South Africa since the advent of a new dispensation. Whereas theorising and research on language issues in higher education ...

Although 'globalisation' has become the catchword our our times, it is not a simple linear or uniform process. On the contrary, globalisation is associated with apparently contradictory processes that manifest themselves ...

This chapter deals with the complex, fast-changing and fast-developing world of the measurement of mass media audiences. Important concepts, the reasons for the need for reliable audience information and the nature of the ...

In the introduction of this article the focus falls on the opinions of prominent South African leaders on the relationship between the majority and the minority in post-apartheid South Africa. These opinions echo the ...

In the heterogeneous South African society, race has become not only the major organizing principle, but also the primary unit of social analysis. The concept “intergroup relations” has consequently predominantly been ...