The state-sponsored and centralised institutionalisation of an academic discipline

Sociology in South Africa, 1920–1970

Bibliographic Data

ID7100714
AuthorsShireen Ally, Katie Mooney, Paul Stewart (0000-0001-8902-1497)
Year2003
Volume34
Issue1
Pages70-103
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociety in Transition (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1028-9852 • E-ISSN: 2072-1978
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21528586.2003.10419084
OpenAlexW1964562748
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited26

This paper is the first of a two-part article. It is an exploratory attempt to expand our understanding of the organization of sociological knowledge within both the university and extra-university sectors in South Africa and the state's key role in that process. It tracks the institutional development of the discipline within the state's universities, as well as the centralised bureaucratic mechanisms of state power through which social research was commissioned, funded, practised and monitored. It outlines the three major ethnically and racially separate streams of sociology in the university system and identifies the key academic groupings and individuals involved. Similarly, the establishment and the role of highly centralised, state-sponsored and organized insitutions is traced, thereby showing how state agencies have co-ordinated, shaped and directed the actual content of sociological research

Discipline · Economic growth · Economics · Institutionalisation · Political science · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Data Analysis and Archiving · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics