The lectureship under advertisement (May 2013) arises from the impending retirement of a long-serving member of staff. The current foci of our department broadly span the areas of general sociology (including power and inequality, issues of class and race and gender, cultural and diversity studies etc.) and the sociology of social transformation (including global and labour studies, development, social change etc.) – though clearly here too there are diverse and cross-cutting interests of staff in these various subfields. In addition there is a perceived need to strengthen teaching and research in industrial sociology. We therefore seek applications especially from prospective lecturers in industrial sociology, broadly understood in terms of global and/or labour studies.

A new book by our own Sociology staff, Xolela Mangcu. Biko: A Biography Read more...

The Open Society Foundation for South Africa has provided a five-year grant to fund a series of Van Zyl Slabbert Visiting Professorships in the Departments of Political Studies and Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities.

Sean Casey is country director for International Medical Corps in Haiti.

You can read his recent Guardian op ed article on Haiti's cholera epidemic here.

Owen Crankshaw and Elena Moore have designed and managed two sample surveys of residents in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Read more...

Please bear with us while we update our website. All missing course descriptions are available here: postgraduate courses, undergraduate courses. Read more...