Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century

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dc.contributor.advisorSaunders, Christopheren_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorWebb, Colinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Samuel John Russellen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-21T19:20:21Z
dc.date.available2016-03-21T19:20:21Z
dc.date.issued1978en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 202-206.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study sets out to examine the order of categories and values, structuring men's thought and perception at a fundamental level although not systematically formulated, in terms of which the Transkeian magistrates viewed the African communities under their governance. It is thus an essay in colonial administration, but the critical focus has been narrowed and is centred primarily upon the ideas and assumptions the magistrates used in the business of administration to explain society, government and law. At the same time, a major concern of this work has been to place the particular problem with which it deals - the elucidation of magisterial ideas and attitudes - within a wider framework of contemporary social and political thought, to fit them into the matrix of Victorian culture as it conditioned and shaped the administrators' perceptions and responses touching the indigenous black population. A methodological pitfall opens here, of assimilating individual or local currents of ideas to more general patterns - the 'climate of opinion' or what Matthew Arnold called the 'main movement of mind' of the age; of trying to press disparate, multifarious and often carelessly formulated ideas and assumptions into a conceptual framework or theoretical construct that was independently arrived at and presented as given. The mode of procedure followed was one that allowed the source material to suggest broader patterns and larger perspectives according to which it could be most intelligibly and satisfyingly ordered; one also that wove together various logically independent concepts and general propositions, derived from general studies of the topic and period, and brought them to bear on the Transkeian situation. In this way it is hoped that the main features and contours of the magisterial mind have been rendered with as much precision of detail and emphasis as the demands of analytical depth and conceptual rigour would permit.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMartin, S. J. R. (1978). <i>Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18085en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMartin, Samuel John Russell. <i>"Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1978. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18085en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMartin, S. 1978. Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Martin, Samuel John Russell AB - This study sets out to examine the order of categories and values, structuring men's thought and perception at a fundamental level although not systematically formulated, in terms of which the Transkeian magistrates viewed the African communities under their governance. It is thus an essay in colonial administration, but the critical focus has been narrowed and is centred primarily upon the ideas and assumptions the magistrates used in the business of administration to explain society, government and law. At the same time, a major concern of this work has been to place the particular problem with which it deals - the elucidation of magisterial ideas and attitudes - within a wider framework of contemporary social and political thought, to fit them into the matrix of Victorian culture as it conditioned and shaped the administrators' perceptions and responses touching the indigenous black population. A methodological pitfall opens here, of assimilating individual or local currents of ideas to more general patterns - the 'climate of opinion' or what Matthew Arnold called the 'main movement of mind' of the age; of trying to press disparate, multifarious and often carelessly formulated ideas and assumptions into a conceptual framework or theoretical construct that was independently arrived at and presented as given. The mode of procedure followed was one that allowed the source material to suggest broader patterns and larger perspectives according to which it could be most intelligibly and satisfyingly ordered; one also that wove together various logically independent concepts and general propositions, derived from general studies of the topic and period, and brought them to bear on the Transkeian situation. In this way it is hoped that the main features and contours of the magisterial mind have been rendered with as much precision of detail and emphasis as the demands of analytical depth and conceptual rigour would permit. DA - 1978 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1978 T1 - Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century TI - Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18085 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18085
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMartin SJR. Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 1978 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18085en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistorical Studiesen_ZA
dc.subject.otherHistoryen_ZA
dc.subject.otherTranskei (South Africa) - Historyen_ZA
dc.titlePolitical and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth centuryen_ZA
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