SARS is the official journal of the South African Sociological Association. We publish widely and prioritize research from the African continent and the world.
Book Review
'Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins' written by Hannah J. Dawson. 2025. Wits University Press: Johannesburg.
Review by Tshepo B. Maake
Read at: https://t.co/ZMZhFaN50I
New study alert! 💅
Exploring how South African men who post videos with painted nails navigate, negotiate, and challenge policing of masculinity in online spaces.
by Kgothatso Mokgele
Read the full Open Access article here:
https://t.co/qSsMpv57iz
How does growing up without a mother shape a young woman's journey into parenthood? 🇿🇦
New research by T.N. Majola & P. Maharaj explores unstable living setups, the erosion of Ubuntu care, and early motherhood challenges.
Read the Open-Access paper: https://t.co/LCvuKITReg
OUT NOW:
Editorial for the Special Issue on
'Troubling Cisheteronormativity: Gender, Sexualities and Society'
by Letitia Smuts and Dennis Francis
Read in full at : https://t.co/NZU7D2ygt0
New Research OUT NOW!
'Amawele (Twinship), tradition, and trans identity: Navigating cisheteronormativity among AmaXhosa traditional male initiation ritual of rite of passage'
By: Vuyolwethu Ngcofea, Anthony Brownb and Anele Siswanac
Read at: https://t.co/KL941ckq6n
Call for Special Issues:
The South African Review of Sociology (SARS) invites academics to submit proposals for Special Issues.
Looking forward to your receiving your Special Issue Proposal!!!!
New Study Out Now Indicates:
"Educational necropolitics & their intra-connected assemblages of violence are alive & well in most schools that follow Western educational ideals" & calls for "attention" "to resist cishetero sucker punches"
Open Access
https://t.co/rZz53baY3m
New Study OUT NOW on:
Troubling the Cisheteronormativity Body as an Able-bodied and Cis-gendered Body by Lindokuhle Ubisi
Read the OPEN ACCESS article here:
https://t.co/atMOL5YLQt
New Study OUT NOW:
'Sexual Sanctions and Solidarity: Heterosexual Schoolgirls’ Negotiations of Cisheteronormativity in two South African High Schools'
by Emmanuel Mayezaa, Deevia Bhanab, Raksha Janakc & Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidid
Read Open Access article:
https://t.co/Rry7CSllTK
Call for Special Issues:
The South African Review of Sociology (SARS) invites academics to submit proposals for Special Issues.
Looking forward to your receiving your Special Issue Proposal!!!!
New Study OUT NOW on
'The (mis)Representation of “Illegal” Migrant Life: Counter-narratives of Undocumented Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa'
by Johannes Machinya
Read the Open Access article here:
https://t.co/UIol7voesP
The South African Review of Sociology has published heartfelt tributes to the life and work of a dedicated scholar: 'Goodbye, Susan Holland-Muter' 'A Tribute to Dr Susan Holland-Muter'
Rest in peace.
https://t.co/58XVXfZZFR
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Out Now: The latest Special Issue of the @SARS_Journal
This volume explores the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, in South Africa, offering critical sociological insights
Read issue here: https://t.co/TpAuOniSWZ
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Rejecting essentialist cultural explanations of drug abuse & gangsterism this article posits it an outcome of broader structural forces: unemployment, poverty, government neglect & colonial & Apartheid racial exclusions
#Tewolde#SARS#Sociology
https://t.co/89lzj4qO3c
Economic Legacies of the #COVIDー19 Pandemic:
'Pandemic-related intertemporal relative deprivation reduced the likelihood of approving political incumbents, potentially contributing to a broader desire for political change'.
Read more at: https://t.co/6yQWyEGQg7