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When South Africa's first democratically elected government came to power in 1994, its rhetoric was explicitly feminist. While the country's new leaders promised above all to address the racial inequalities [...] more...

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01277_1.x Byline: Gay W. Seidman (1) Author Affiliation: (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison more...

Edited by Marco Giugni and Florence Passy. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 283 Pp. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $29.95. In a world where discussions of recent trends in religion and culture often [...]

This article discusses the different manners in which Michael Burawoy portrays the social aspects of capitalism. Topics include colonialism, social democracy, and labor relations.

The corporate codes of conduct to improve the behavior of multinational corporations in South Africa under apartheid using the Sullivan Principle, are examined. The anti-apartheid movement, its implications on the corporate compliance, independent monitoring and its problems are discussed. more...

In 1992, while South Africa's political leaders were stalemated in protracted negotiations to end the system of white supremacy known as apartheid, a group of anti-apartheid activists decided to challenge [...] more...

For most of the past 50 years, South Africa served as the outlier in sociological discussions of racial inequality: From the late 1940s, when most of the world was moving away from strict racial classification and segregation, apartheid provided social scientists with their most extreme example of the dynamics of racial segregation and exclusion. Yet while apartheid South Africa was unique, social scientists have also used it in comparative studies to explore the underlying dynamics of racial capitalism: Insights from South Africa have offered sociologists new ways to think about migrant labor; the construction of ethnicity; racial exclusion and colonial relationships; relationships between business, white workers and capitalist states; and oppositional social movements. With the end of legal apartheid, South Africa is poised to move into a new position in the annals of social science. From being an outlier, it is increasingly used an an exemplar, in discussions of democratic transitions, development strategi es and globalization, and postcolonial transformations. Still to come, perhaps, are comparative studies that draw on insights from other parts of the world to re-examine aspects of South African society that have been left relatively unexplored -- ironically including issues around racial identities and changing patterns of race relations as South Africa constructs a new non-racial democracy., INTRODUCTION As everyone knows, South Africa is unique: For fifty years, it stood in the annals of social science as a monument to racial inequality. It appeared in most discussions [...] more...

The tendency for abstract theorists of democratization to overlook gender dynamics is perhaps exacerbated in the South African case, where racial inequality is obviously key. Yet, attention to the processes through which South African activists inserted gender issues into discussions about how to construct new institutions provides an unusual prism through which to explore the gendered character of citizenship. After providing an explanation for the unusual prominence of gender concerns in South Africa's democratization, the article argues that during the drawn-out democratic transition, South African activists, often influenced by international feminist discussions, developed a collective definition of gender interests and began to build those interests into the structure of democratic institutions, in ways that will affect politics and the definition of 'women's interests' in the future. more...