Browsing by Subject "cultural identity"

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    A Developmental Social Work Practice Framework for Promoting Healthy Human Relationships for and Amongst Youth in South Africa
    (Springer, 2021-01-02) Gxubane, Thulane; Noyoo, Ndangwa
    Young people are exposed to various sources of vulnerabilities due to their stage of human development and their socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. They are often confronted with enormous social and peer pressures, as well as challenges of having to live up to the expectations of their families, community and society in general. These pressures and expectations usually result in intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts. The former usually leads to intense anger, anxiety and sometimes depression which manifest in unhealthy relationships with the self. The latter usually contributes to destructive human relationships and interpersonal violence. Dysfunctional human relationships have a major negative impact on young people’s social functioning. Healthy human relationships are essential in establishing good social support systems, which could enhance young people’s sense of belonging and social functioning. A developmental practice paradigm requires social workers to promote the prevention of destructive human relationships, and to intervene as early as possible in ameliorating emerging troublesome human relationships. This chapter focuses on a developmental social work practice framework for promoting healthy human relationships for and amongst youth in South Africa. It proposes a developmental and restorative practice framework, which could promote resilience and healthy human relationships for and among youth.
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    Narratives of the transnational student: a complicated story of cultural identity, cultural exchange and homecoming
    (2015) Ncube, Nolwazi Nadia; Pande, Amrita
    This research study gives a glimpse into the ways in which transnational study complicates students' cultural identity, sense of belonging and homecoming; interweaving their experiences into a new transnational identity and a plural sense of belonging. The study examines a sub-group of elite, highly mobile people referred to as "transnational students" - who in a working definition are students who have travelled to; lived, studied and even sometimes worked in at least two countries during the course of their degree programmes. It draws on their autobiographical narratives in order to demonstrate the way in which they exist in a suspended state of 'temporary permanence' and with time, develop a' contaminated' sense of cultural identity, diluted by their 'foreign exchanges'. The study reveals the mercurial fluidity with which abstract and concrete constructions of home are made by transnational students. It also portrays the ways in which these students navigate their multiplied entities as a result of their cultural exchanges abroad. Finally, it tells a story of (dis)connects and (dis)connections to bring out the challenges faced by these students abroad and at home.
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    Organ donation Week 4 - Culture and organ donation
    (2017) Thomson, David
    This video focuses on cultural beliefs and organ donation. The video discusses how cultural beliefs play a role in the conversations around organ donation. It also touches on the importance in understanding family structures. The video also discussed the complexity of the South African context due to the wide variety of cultures. The video then talks about cultural identity and the need for respect. This is video 5/9 in week 4 of the Organ Donation course.
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    Transforming space and significance - a study of the constitutional court of South Africa
    Rigby, Ursula; Townsend, Stephen S.
    This study examines the process of establishing and building the new South African Constitutional Court as the first intervention in the development of the Constitutional Hill precinct and as part of an endeavour aimed at creating a new national identity. The argument is reliant on the premise that an agency, in this case the judges of the constitutional court, actively seeking out means of transforming space and place and transferring significances in heritage resources, has contributed self-consciously in the process of social transformation. The study is intended to be descriptive of a social reality and explanatory of a special atypical case. Pierre Nora's seminal concept involving lieux de mémoire, their spatial and material potential, and the means by which lieux are formed and retained as lieux (memory objects/vessels/vestiges of heritage) has framed this study. The premise that space and place embodies and transmits concepts of cultural heritage has inspired ongoing and complimentary theories of the ways in which the built environment manifests narratives of power and the role of place in memory. Nora's lieux are social creations often involving built form and it is clear that historically significant built form can be used in social endeavors which contribute to the creation of a society's identity. Research and analysis of the Constitutional Court archive, selected published critique, examination of the artefact itself and by means of interviews with key professional individuals who participated in the programme of the building of the new Constitutional Court, all contribute to an exposure of the process of the endeavour of the judges of the Constitutional Court to establish a “lieux of cultural identity”.
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    Writing your World Week 1 - Woodward on identity: Roots and routes
    (2019-06-01) Hutchings, Catherine; Woodward, Kath
    This video focuses on a discussion with Professor Woodward on identity in relation to the world we live in. The professor talks about how personalities are linked to the world that we live in. She then discusses how people use identities to operate within the world and the relevant restrictions. The video goes on to talk about how people share identities and are able to make sense of who they are in relation to others and the world they live in. Then it discusses the embodiment of identities. This is followed up by a discussion on culture, religion and gender. This is video 5/9 in week 1 of the Writing your World course.