South African Review of Sociology

SARS is the official journal of the South African Sociological Association. We publish widely and prioritize research from the African continent and the world.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Obituary:
Robert Wesley Pattman,
14 February 1955–13 August 2025
By: Bernard Dubbeld

Read in full at: https://t.co/N0FqJVRCbu

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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

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Issue 4 of Volume 55 Out Now!

Read Editorial for details and Read Articles at: https://t.co/0gP2wFYwV3

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Many thanks for your outstanding Special Issue proposals!! Due to the high response rate we will be accepting new proposals for 2027/2028

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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!!!!

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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

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New Study Out NOW Indicates that:
The visually impaired express hyper-femininity, -masculinity and -ableism.

Open Access:
https://t.co/atMOL5YLQt

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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

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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

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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!!!!

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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

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New Study OUT NOW on Women Leaders in Nambia

Read the Open Access article here:
https://t.co/TZobhgNHjx

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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

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Special Issue Remembering Eddie Webster Available NOW

See more at: https://t.co/Q6KxkEQy6I

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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