Department of Sociology

This module focuses on understanding democracy and the various types of democracies that exist. The course is in relation to South Africa and the economic development and trajectory of other democracies around the world. 

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Welcome to 1/ASY 502

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This is a level one second semester module in Sociology and Industrial Sociology. The purpose of this module is to introduce students in Sociology and Industrial Sociology to primary aspects of local government as an institution, and local governance as a collective process of providing social services. The main objective of this module is to equip students with perspectives providing a strong rationale for decentralized decision-making and a strong role of local governments. Further to that, this module delves into equipping undergraduate students with knowledge on developmental and cooperative local government. Also, institutional, political and administrative systems in local government are covered in this module. Students doing this module are also equipped with knowledge and functions of South African Local Government Association (SALGA) as a representative agency of local government, and the roles of traditional leadership in service delivery at a local level of governance.  

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Welcome to the module ASGY 342: RESEARCH METHODS 4. A student is doing this exit module because they have successfully undergone the prerequisites of this module; firstly ASGY 241: RESEARCH METHODS 1, which introduced students in Sociology to social scientific research. Further to that, you are also doing this module because you did ASGY 242: RESEARCH METHODS 2, which introduced students to methodologies of social scientific research. And you qualify for this module because you have undergone the introduction to practical research on ASGY341: RESEARCH METHODS 3, where you were taken to the process of doing the research proposal under your chosen topic. Therefore, this module, ASGY342: RESEARCH METHODS 4, is the last course of your Sociology/ Industrial Sociology BA Degree research sequence.  This final module in research sequence in Sociology degree, further develop students with practical research as a student is expected to do a research report. Therefore, in this module a student is given an opportunity to do a research report from start to finish, under the supervision of the assigned lecturer. This module equip students in their B. A. Degree in Sociology and Industrial Sociology with exposure to practical research and be able to do research project(s) independently. Therefore students are equipped with scientific ways of dealing with modern social problems in a scholarly manner.   

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Welcome to ASGY 341. This module builds on the basic research methods knowledge already acquired in ASGY 241 and ASGY 242. However, this module is geared towards a two-pronged strategy. The first objective of the module is to introduce students to practical research strategies. These include specific research designs that are tailored towards project evaluations or organizational problem solving i.e., quantitative and qualitative research designs, as in the earlier research modules students were already introduced to the more traditional research designs. Secondly, this module is geared towards providing students with practical experience in conceptualizing and executing a research project from start to finish. Students will therefore be assigned research topics and research problems to resolve. The module aims to equip students with the skills to analyze data and to conceptualize and implement a research project. Therefore, students would be expected to prepare a research proposal, go through all phases of social research to write a research report.