Peter Du Preez
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3923065 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Du Preez |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Du Preez |
| FIRMA | DU PREEZ P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
In search of genocide
A case of genocide-Rwanda-is compared to a case where genocide or great violence might have been expected to occur but did not-the change of regime in South Africa. It is proposed that one crucial difference between the cases is the difference between splitting and dividing groups. Whereas in Rwanda the Tutsi and the Hutu were systematically split since the Belgians used the Tutsi as surrogates to dominate the Hutu, in South Africa there was no s…
The Evolution of Altruism
Why is altruism such an important test case for individualist theories of human behavior? The main reason is that we find difficult to imagine what persuade the individualist maximizer of self-interest to sacrifice when, though there is a benefit to the group, there is a personal loss. Obviously, the maximizer must be bamboozled into sacrificing, or must make a mistake in the calculations. The often suggested solutions are that the are too diffic…
Blight's Recent Articles
Ideology and Utopia in South Africa
In a seminal paper published in 1963, Kurt Danziger produced evidence that English, Afrikaans, Indian and African students in South Africa had quite distinct future orientations. English speakers tended to be predominantly “catastrophic”, Afrikaners tended to be “technicist”, Indians tended to be “liberal”, and Africans tended to be “revolutionary”. In the present paper we inquire into the stability of these positions and find that some things ha…
Ideology and utopia revisited
Conversations with a Xhosa Child
Pre-dialogue, proto-dialogue and dialogue are described and examples of these in the language development of a Xhosa child are given. Halliday's (1975) description of the emergence of dialogue in an English-speaking child is found to apply well to the emergence of dialogue in a Xhosa-speaking child
Explanations of racial antagonism
If we accept Dahrendorf's argument that the determinant of class position ‘can be found in the participation in or exclusion from the exercise of authority within any imperatively co‐ordinated association’ then, where a differential in access to positions of authority is associated with ethnicity or race, racial or ethnic antagonism occurs. The advantage of this concept of class is that it is possible to account for conflicts where race is the ‘e…
Units of Information in the Acquisition of Language
The child learns language in melodic units called tone groups, which are units of information. The focus of what the speaker wishes to convey to the listener is found in the tonic. All child speech during the holophrastic period, and much adult speech later on, takes the form of telegraphic ellipsis, which relies on the non-language environment to explain the tonic. The development of language round the tonic is possible because the tonic can shi…
Reproduction of Time Intervals after Short Periods of Delay
Judgment of time and aspects of personality
Ideology and utopia revisited
Ideology and Utopia in South Africa
In a seminal paper published in 1963, Kurt Danziger produced evidence that English, Afrikaans, Indian and African students in South Africa had quite distinct future orientations. English speakers tended to be predominantly “catastrophic”, Afrikaners tended to be “technicist”, Indians tended to be “liberal”, and Africans tended to be “revolutionary”. In the present paper we inquire into the stability of these positions and find that some things ha…
Units of Information in the Acquisition of Language
The child learns language in melodic units called tone groups, which are units of information. The focus of what the speaker wishes to convey to the listener is found in the tonic. All child speech during the holophrastic period, and much adult speech later on, takes the form of telegraphic ellipsis, which relies on the non-language environment to explain the tonic. The development of language round the tonic is possible because the tonic can shi…
Judgment of time and aspects of personality
Reproduction of Time Intervals after Short Periods of Delay
Units of Information in the Acquisition of Language
The child learns language in melodic units called tone groups, which are units of information. The focus of what the speaker wishes to convey to the listener is found in the tonic. All child speech during the holophrastic period, and much adult speech later on, takes the form of telegraphic ellipsis, which relies on the non-language environment to explain the tonic. The development of language round the tonic is possible because the tonic can shi…
Explanations of racial antagonism
If we accept Dahrendorf's argument that the determinant of class position ‘can be found in the participation in or exclusion from the exercise of authority within any imperatively co‐ordinated association’ then, where a differential in access to positions of authority is associated with ethnicity or race, racial or ethnic antagonism occurs. The advantage of this concept of class is that it is possible to account for conflicts where race is the ‘e…
Conversations with a Xhosa Child
Pre-dialogue, proto-dialogue and dialogue are described and examples of these in the language development of a Xhosa child are given. Halliday's (1975) description of the emergence of dialogue in an English-speaking child is found to apply well to the emergence of dialogue in a Xhosa-speaking child
Ideology and utopia revisited
Ideology and Utopia in South Africa
In a seminal paper published in 1963, Kurt Danziger produced evidence that English, Afrikaans, Indian and African students in South Africa had quite distinct future orientations. English speakers tended to be predominantly “catastrophic”, Afrikaners tended to be “technicist”, Indians tended to be “liberal”, and Africans tended to be “revolutionary”. In the present paper we inquire into the stability of these positions and find that some things ha…
Blight's Recent Articles
The Evolution of Altruism
Why is altruism such an important test case for individualist theories of human behavior? The main reason is that we find difficult to imagine what persuade the individualist maximizer of self-interest to sacrifice when, though there is a benefit to the group, there is a personal loss. Obviously, the maximizer must be bamboozled into sacrificing, or must make a mistake in the calculations. The often suggested solutions are that the are too diffic…
In search of genocide
A case of genocide-Rwanda-is compared to a case where genocide or great violence might have been expected to occur but did not-the change of regime in South Africa. It is proposed that one crucial difference between the cases is the difference between splitting and dividing groups. Whereas in Rwanda the Tutsi and the Hutu were systematically split since the Belgians used the Tutsi as surrogates to dominate the Hutu, in South Africa there was no s…
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