Sociology and Social Policy: Assignment Help Semester 1

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HUMANITIES WRITING PLACE COORDINATOR: Vuyolwethu Qinela (QinelaV@ukzn.ac.za)

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PRINT BOOKS ON SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE LIBRARY SHELVES AT THESE NUMBERS:

• 301   Sociology and sociological concepts/theory
• 331    Unemployment issues

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EBOOKS CAN BE FOUND BY SEARCHING THE EBOOKS TABS ON THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE

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SOME eBOOK TITLES (click on links below)

• Sociology : a global introduction by Macionis & Plummer  
• The new sociological imagination 
• Innovation for inclusive development and transformation in South Africa
• Rethinking modernity : postcolonialism and the sociological imagination
• The South African labour market : theory & practice 
• Exploring BRICS contribution in addressing youth unemployment in South Africa
  

THE FOLLOWING TEXTS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE ACADEMIC RESERVES SECTION ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF EGM LIBRARY

• The sociological imagination by C Wright Mills
• The new sociological imagination by Fuller

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• To make long-term gains against infection inequity, infectious disease epidemiology needs to develop a more sociological imagination. 
• Social Love and the Critical Potential of People: When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination
• The Sociological Imagination: Thinking Outside the Box
• Examples of Sociological Imagination
• Awakening Students' Sociological Imagination
• The Sociological Imagination of Unemployment

WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS CLICK ON LINKS BELOW (click on links)

• C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination - Troubles vs. Issues 
• The Impact of Unemployment on Society
• South Africa's unemployment crisis cripples prospects for young graduates
• What Causes Unemployment? - The Sociology Workshop
• What is the Sociological Imagination?
• The Sociological Imagination | C. Wright Mills Sociological Imagination
• Sociological Imagination and C. Wright Mills
• Youth unemployment still rife in South Africa
• Poverty and unemployment Applying the Sociological Imagination to the Coronavirus Pandemic!
• What is the Sociological Imagination?
• Sociological Imagination - YouTube 
• C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination
• Sociological Imagination- simplified
• C Wright Mills Sociological Imagination and the Power Elite

 FOR HELP ON REFERENCING CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

APA AND HARVARD REFERENCING

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CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR RESEARCH WITH JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Shifting social contracts and the sociological imagination 
• Determinants and Prospects of Graduate Unemployment in South Africa
  Re-thinking unemployment: A challenge to the legacy of Jahoda et al
• The sociological imagination of rich and poor citizen  
• Sociological imagination as social critique: Interrogating the 'global economic crisis' 
• Back to the future. sociological perspectives on expectations, aspirations and imagined futures
• Public reason, adult education and social imagination 
• The roots of neglect: Towards a sociology of non-imagination
• The sociological imagination and social responsibility 
• Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics.
• Rojek the sociological imagination and leisure  
• The Sociological Imagination in Challenging Times
• Practicing Sociological Imagination through Writing Sociological Autobiography
• The Sociological Imagination and its imperial shadows
• A review New Sociological Imagination   
• The sociological imagination a review
• A sociological imagination
• Impact of entrepreneurship education on youth unemployment in South Africa.
• C. Wright Mills in Copenhagen: Collaboration, Politics, and the Making of 'The Sociological Imagination
• The Impact of Social Grants on Income Poverty in a South African Township
• Contextualising Entrepreneurship As A Panacea To Youth Unemployment In South Africa
• Assessing the Role of Public Employment Services in Addressing Unemployment: A South African Perspective
• Social stratification and inequality in South Africa

EBOOKS CAN BE FOUND BY SEARCHING THE EBOOKS TABS ON THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE

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eBOOK TITLES (click on links below)

• Max Weber and Karl Marx
• The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx and the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence
• None So Fit to Break the Chains 
• The ecological crisis and the logic of capital
• Issues in the economics of immigration
• Why is collective bargaining failing in South Africa? : a reflection on how to restore social dialogue in South Africa.
• The unresolved National Question in South Africa : left thought under apartheid and beyond

PRINT BOOKS TITLES CAN BE FOUND AT THESE NUMBERS ON THE SHELVES OF THE  LIBRARY

• 302.554 & 301.62
• 174.4 & 335.4
• Femininity as alienation : women and the family in Marxism and psychoanalysis
• Marx's theory of alienation
• Marxism and liberalism
• Capital, the Communist manifesto, and other writings
• The new South Africa at twenty : critical perspectives
• Ethical issues in business : a philosophical approach

• A CRITIQUE OF MARX'S THEORY OF ALIENATION
• Marx's Theory of Alienation - JSTOR
• (PDF) Karl Marx's Theory of Alienation - ResearchGate
• Karl Marx's Theory of Alienation - SSRN

WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEOS CLICK ON LINKS BELOW (click on links)

• Karl Marx on Alienation
• Karl Marx: Labour and Alienation
• Fundamentals of Marx: Alienation

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Referencing Help

CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR RESEARCH WITH SOME JOURNAL ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ETC.  ENSURE YOU HAVE GLOBAL PROTECT FOR ACCESS TO THE ARTICLES BELOW.

• Human development and alienation in the thought of Karl Marx
• The Normative Force behind Marx's Theory of Alienation 
• Revisiting Marx's concept of alienation 
• Marx on alienation and employee capital participation
• Exploring The Trends and Dynamics of Poverty in South Africa
• 'They're all in it together': the social production of fraud in capitalist Africa
• Rarity or reality of some theories of poverty in explaining the poverty in Africa
• Using Marx's theory of alienation empirically
• The “Butterfly Effects” That Emerged to Xenophobic Outbreaks in South Africa: Xenophobia, A Timeless Boom
• Framing of the 2019 Xenophobic Attacks in South Africa in Selected African Newspapers
• Karl Marx's writings on alienation   
• Critical theory and praxis in post-apartheid South Africa: The case for a critical criminology
• Alienation in a four factor world 
• Towards deliberative democracy through the democratic governance and design of public spaces in the South African capital city, Tshwane
• Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism 
• Alienation and social classes  
• ALIENATED SPACES IN CONTEMPORARY HOUSING
• The tenuous link between crime and incarceration: Bosasa's Public-private Partnership
• Land reform and belonging in South Africa: A place-making perspective
• Work alienation and its gravediggers: Social class, class consciousness, and activism 
• CONCEPT OF ALIENATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIOECONOMIC OTHERIZATION SONAT BAYRAM

Information provided on this topic has been provided by Dr Rule of the Department of Higher and Adult Education. (ex-Academic of UKZN)

Please be advised that books dealing with the following can be found at these numbers:

• How to write a proposal, literature review......... shelf number 808.06
• Research methodology and methods................shelf number 300.72

You may use the following book to assist you with the writing of your proposal but you are further encouraged to use books from the above mentioned numbers.