The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-25T10:00:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-25T10:00:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-25T07:43:08Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This chapter examines changing social attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa, asking whether the African middle classes have distinctive social attitudes, relative to poorer or lower class African people, whether this has changed over the 2000s, and thus how the rapid growth of the African middle classes is affecting social and political life. The chapter uses survey data (from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's South African Reconciliation Barometer) to show that the African middle classes assess much more positively than the poor the economic changes that have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa, and that this differential has grown over time. The middle classes are aware of their privilege, but may underestimate the challenges facing the poor. They are also more positive about improved inter-racial relations since 1994, perhaps because they enjoy very much more inter-racial interaction than do the poor. In terms of public policy, the middle classes support affirmative action more strongly, but are also more likely to say that the government does too much for people and probably see less need for active policies around employment creation. Simple multivariate models indicate uneven class and race effects on selected social attitudes. Overall, the growth of the African middle classes seems to be good for race relations but may reduce the likelihood of pro-poor policies to challenge inequalities of class. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J. (2015). <i>The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19179 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy <i>The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19179 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seekings, J. (2015). The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - This chapter examines changing social attitudes in post-apartheid South Africa, asking whether the African middle classes have distinctive social attitudes, relative to poorer or lower class African people, whether this has changed over the 2000s, and thus how the rapid growth of the African middle classes is affecting social and political life. The chapter uses survey data (from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's South African Reconciliation Barometer) to show that the African middle classes assess much more positively than the poor the economic changes that have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa, and that this differential has grown over time. The middle classes are aware of their privilege, but may underestimate the challenges facing the poor. They are also more positive about improved inter-racial relations since 1994, perhaps because they enjoy very much more inter-racial interaction than do the poor. In terms of public policy, the middle classes support affirmative action more strongly, but are also more likely to say that the government does too much for people and probably see less need for active policies around employment creation. Simple multivariate models indicate uneven class and race effects on selected social attitudes. Overall, the growth of the African middle classes seems to be good for race relations but may reduce the likelihood of pro-poor policies to challenge inequalities of class. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer TI - The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19179 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19179 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J. The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer. 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19179 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Social Consequences of Class Formation among Black South Africans in the 2000s: Evidence from the South African Reconciliation Barometer | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |