Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town

dc.contributor.authorSeekings, Jeremy
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-08T20:34:05Z
dc.date.available2016-05-08T20:34:05Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.updated2016-05-08T20:32:51Z
dc.description.abstractThe renaissance of studies of class in post-apartheid South Africa has not produced any certainty as to the optimal delineation of classes in empirical analysis. This paper uses data from a 2005 survey in Cape Town to examine the relationships between occupational (or objective) class, self-reported (or subjective) class, race, neighbourhood income and household income. Cape Town is not an industrial city, and thus has small working classes, but (like all South African cities) it does have high unemployment. There are clear relationships between race, education and occupational class (unsurprisingly, given the history of apartheid). The relationships between occupational class, incomes and self-reported class are less clear. The paper concludes with a preliminary analysis of some of the possible consequences of class, in terms of perceptions of the social structure and of government policy, and of racial identities and attitudes.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSeekings, J. (2007). <i>Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19504en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSeekings, Jeremy <i>Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19504en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSeekings, J. (2007). Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Townen_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The renaissance of studies of class in post-apartheid South Africa has not produced any certainty as to the optimal delineation of classes in empirical analysis. This paper uses data from a 2005 survey in Cape Town to examine the relationships between occupational (or objective) class, self-reported (or subjective) class, race, neighbourhood income and household income. Cape Town is not an industrial city, and thus has small working classes, but (like all South African cities) it does have high unemployment. There are clear relationships between race, education and occupational class (unsurprisingly, given the history of apartheid). The relationships between occupational class, incomes and self-reported class are less clear. The paper concludes with a preliminary analysis of some of the possible consequences of class, in terms of perceptions of the social structure and of government policy, and of racial identities and attitudes. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town TI - Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19504 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSeekings J. Perceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Town. 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19504en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)*
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dc.sourceCentre for Social Science Research
dc.source.urihttp://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/
dc.subject.otherIncome
dc.subject.otherClass
dc.subject.otherPost-apartheid
dc.subject.otherCape Town
dc.titlePerceptions of class and income in post-apartheid Cape Townen_ZA
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