Catapulted into democracy: South African adolescents' sociopolitical orientations following rapid social change

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 563-583

  Finchilescu, Gillian ^a,c   Dawes, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b University of Cape Town ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644332047     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-4537.831998083     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Aboud, F. E. (1988). Children and prejudice. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.
2. Appelgryn, A., & Bornman, E. (1996). Relative deprivation in contemporary South Africa. Journal of Social Psychology, 136, 381-397.
3. Bengtson, V. L. & Troll, L. (1978). Youth and their parents: Feedback and intergenerational influence in socialization. In R. M. Lerner and G. B. Spannier (Eds.), Child influences on marital and family interaction (pp. 215-240). New York: Academic Press.
4. Bhavnani, K. (1991). Talking politics: A psychological framing for views from youth in Britain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
5. Braungart, M. M., & Braungart, R. G. (1986). Life course and generational politics. Annual Review of Sociology, 12, 205-231.
6. Braungart, M. M. & Braungart, R. G. (1991). The effects of the 1960s political generation on former left and right wing youth activist leaders. Social Problems, 30, 297-315.
7. Braungart, R. M. & Braungart, M. M. (1995). Black and White university students' perceptions of self and country: An exploratory study. South African Journal of Sociology, 26, 77-87.
8. Breakwell, G. M. (1986). Identities and conflicts. In G. M. Breakwell (Ed.), Coping with threatened identities. London: Methuen.
9. Breakwell, G. M. (Ed.). (1996). Changing European identities: Social psychological analyses of social change. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann.
10. Bundy, C. (1986, September). Street sociology and pavement politics: Some aspects of the 1985 schools crisis in the Western Cape. Paper presented at the conference, "Western Cape Roots and Realities," University of Cape Town, South Africa.
11. Burman, S. (1986). The contexts of childhood in South Africa: An introduction. In S. Burman & P. Reynolds (Eds.), Growing up in a divided society: Contexts of childhood in South Africa (pp. 1-15). Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press.
12. Dawes, A. (1985). Security laws and children in prison: The question of psychological impact. Psychology in Society, 8, 27-47.
13. Dawes, A., & Donald, D. (1994). Understanding the consequences of adversity. In A. Dawes & D. Donald (Eds.), Childhood and adversity: Psychological perspectives from South African research (pp. 1-27). Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.
14. Dawes, A., & Finchilescu, G. (1994). Adolescents' perspectives of South African society. In F. Van Zyl Slabbert, C. Malan, H. Marais, J. Olivier, & R. Riordan (Eds.), Youth in the new South Africa (pp. 245-250). Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Publishers.
15. Dawes, A., & Finchilescu, G. (1996, March). Fear and loathing at the southern tip: Violence and teenagers in South Africa. Development: Journal of the Society for International Development, Volume 1, 53-57.
16. Du Preez, J. M. (1983). Master symbols in South African school textbooks. Alberton, South Africa: Librarius.
17. Evans, G. (1989). Classrooms of war: The militarisation of white South African schooling. In J. Cock & L. Nathan (Eds.), War and society: The militarisation of South Africa (pp. 283-297). Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.
18. Foster, D. (1986). The development of racial orientation in children: A review of South African research. In S. Burman & P. Reynolds (Eds.), Growing up in a divided society: The contexts of childhood in South Africa (pp. 158-183). Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press.
19. Foster, D. (1994). Racism and minority group children. In A. Dawes & D. Donald (Eds.), Childhood and adversity: Psychological perspectives from South African research (pp. 220-239). Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.
20. Foster, D., & Nel, E. (1991). Attitudes and related concepts. In D. Foster & J. Louw-Potgieter (Eds.), Social psychology in South Africa (pp. 121-167). Johannesburg, South Africa: Lexicon Books.
21. Gauvain, M. (1995). Thinking in niches: Socio-cultural influences on cognitive development. Human Development, 38, 25-45.
22. Haines, R., & Wood, G. (1994). Region of hope and despair: Perceptions and attitudes of Black matriculants in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth towards employment and unemployment and future policy options. In F. Van Zyl Slabbert, C. Malan, H. Marais, J. Olivier, & R. Riordan (Eds.), Youth in the new South Africa (pp. 295-299). Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Publishers.
23. Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). (1996). Honeymoon is over, poll shows. Opinion Poll, 2, 1-2.
24. James, W., Calliguire, D., & Cullinan, K. (Eds.). (1996). Now that we are free: Coloured communities in a democratic South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
25. Kirk, R. E. (1968). Experimental design procedures for the behavioral sciences. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
26. Konvicka, L., and Kavan, J. (1994). Youth movements and the velvet revolution. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 27,160-176.
27. Kotze, H., Mouton, J., Greyling, A., Hackmann, H., & Gouws, A. (1994). The sociopolitical beliefs and attitudes of South African matriculants. In F. Van Zyl Slabbert, C. Malan, H. Marais, J. Olivier, & R. Riordan (Eds.), Youth in the new South Africa (pp. 325-334). Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Publishers.
28. Le Roux, P. (1986). Growing up an Afrikaner. In S. Burman. & P. Reynolds (Eds.), Growing up in a divided society: Contexts of childhood in South Africa (pp. 184-207). Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press.
29. Lewis, G. (1987). Between the wire and the wall: A history of "coloured" politics. Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.
30. Mannheim, K. (1952). The problem of generations. In K. Mannheim, Essays in the sociology of knowledge (pp. 276-332). New York: Oxford University Press.
31. Mattes, R. (1995). The election book: Judgement and choice in South Africa's 1994 election. Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
32. Nathan, L. (1989). Marching to a different beat: The history of the End Conscription Campaign. In J. Cock & L. Nathan (Eds.), War and society: The militarisation of South Africa (pp. 308-323). Cape Town, South Africa: David Philip.
33. Nelson, R. (1992). The sociology of styles of thought. British Journal of Sociology, 43, 25-54.
34. Olivier, J. (1992). Defending the laager: White resistance in South Africa. South Africa in the Nineties, 1, 6-7.
35. Pilcher, J. (1994). Mannheim's sociology of generations: An undervalued legacy. British Journal of Sociology, 45, 481-495.
36. Primo, N. (1997). Women's emancipation: Resistance and empowerment. Agenda, 34, 31-44.
37. Rhoodie, N. J. (1992). Whites' reservations about the ANC's commitment to democratic values seriously impede reform. South Africa in the Nineties, 1, 19-20.
38. Seekings, J. (1993). Heroes or villains? Youth politics in the 1980s. Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan Press.
39. Seekings, J. (1996). From independence to identification. In W. James, D. Calliguire, & K. Cullinan (Eds.), Now that we are free: Coloured communities in a democratic South Africa (pp. 28-38). Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
40. South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR). (1997). South African survey. Johannesburg, South Africa: SAIRR.
41. South African Police Services. (1987). The incidence of serious crime: January to December 1996. Pretoria, South Africa: Crime Information Management Centre, South African Police Services.
42. Stock, M. (1994). Youth culture in East Germany: From symbolic dropout to politicisation. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 27, 135-143.
43. Super, C., & Harkness, S. (1986). The developmental niche: A conceptualization at the interface of society and the individual. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 9, 545-570.
44. Totemeyer, A. (1984). The racial element in Afrikaans children's literature. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
45. Tymowski, A. W. (1994). Youth activism in the Eastern European transformation. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 27, 115-124.
46. Van Zyl Slabbert, F., Malan, C., Marais, H., Olivier, J., & Riordan, R. (Eds.). (1994). Youth in the new South Africa. Pretoria, South Africa: HSRC Publishers.
47. Wetherell, M. (Ed.). (1996). Identities, groups and social issues. London: Sage.