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The Khutsong Housing Project and Power Relationships: An Application of Lukes’ Three Dimensions of Power 库松住宅工程与权力关系:卢卡斯权力三维理论的应用

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1828158

Gift Mupambwa, J. Zaaiman

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引用次数: 2

Hopes, Challenges and Goals—Voices of First-Year At-Risk Higher Education Students in South Africa 希望、挑战和目标——南非高危高等教育一年级学生的声音

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1806919

C. Govender

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引用次数: 5

Assessing the Policy Implementation of the Bangladeshi Domestic Violence Act: Any Lessons for Protecting South African Women in their Homes? 评估孟加拉《家庭暴力法》的政策执行:对南非妇女在家中的保护有何启示?

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1741443

A. Khan, Kopano Ratele

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引用次数: 2

Beyond the Limits of Theory: Qualifying Electoral Authoritarianism in Ethiopia (2005–2015) 超越理论的极限:埃塞俄比亚的选举威权主义(2005-2015)

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1761873

D. G. Kassa

引用次数: 3

Quality Assurance of Community Engagement in South African Higher Education Institutions: Problems and Prospects 南非高等教育机构社区参与的质量保证:问题与展望

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1792971

P. Daniels, T. Adonis

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引用次数: 2

Buttressing Whiteness by Confessing Guilt and Rejecting Racism: A Study of White-Talk about Paid Domestic Labour 通过认罪和拒绝种族主义来支持白人:关于有偿家务劳动的白人谈话研究

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1741442

Joanne Phyfer, K. Durrheim, A. Murray

引用次数: 3

Development, social policy and community action 发展、社会政策和社区行动

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1741444

Christopher G. Thomas

引用次数: 0

South Africa’s Fees Must Fall: The Case of #UPrising in 2015 南非学费必须下降:2015年#起义事件

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-12-18 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2019.1699441

Sandla Nomvete, John Mashayamombe

引用次数: 3

The #Fees Must Fall Movement: “Disruptive Power” and the Politics of Student-Worker Alliances at the University of the Free State (2015–2016) #学费必须下降运动:“破坏性力量”和自由州大学学生-工人联盟的政治(2015-2016)

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2019.1678070

L. Sinwell

引用次数: 3

Autoethnographic Reflections on Student Mobilisation for Educational Reform: From Apartheid to Democracy and the 2015 #Fees-must-fall Student Uprising in South Africa 对学生动员教育改革的民族志反思:从种族隔离到民主，以及2015年#南非学费必须降低学生起义

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South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2019.1699442

Zanetta L. Jansen

引用次数: 1