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2026-MT00316 Social Anthropology 778 and Sociology 778

2026-54186-778 Social Anthropology / Sosiale Antropologie - 778
2026-19003-778 Sociology / Sosiologie - 778

Facilitator: Bernard Dubbeld
Facilitator: RENUGAN Raidoo
Facilitator: ILANA Van Wyk

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Essay 1

2026-MT00316 Social Anthropology 778 and Sociology 778

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Student Administration

Seminar 1 - 12 February

Announcements

Seminar 2 - 19 February

Module Framework

Seminar 3 - 26 February

Seminar 4 - 5 March

Seminar 5 Weber - 12 March

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Seminar 6- Thompson and Comaroff and Comaroff 19 March (Presenters: Brett, Jerone and Marlynne)

Essay question 1 2026

Essay 1

Seminar 7 Fields and Du Bois - 26 March (Presenters: Fayaad, Kezia, and Leigh)

Seminar 8 Ferguson- 16 April (Presenters: June and Pieter)

Seminar 9 Sennett - 23 April (Presenters: Avuyile, Tlotlang and Zoe)

Seminar 10 Foucault - 30 April

Seminar 11 James Scott -7 May (Presenters: Cassidy, Chara and Given

Seminar IV 20 February

Seminar 2 13 February

Seminar VIII- 6 March

Seminar XI Mbembe and Chatterjee-18 March

Seminar XII Stuart Hall- 20 March

Seminar XIII- 25 March

Long Essay 1 due 1 April

Presentations Thursday 10 April

Long essay 2- due 19 April

Seminar 3 Alienation 19 February

Seminar 6 Marx and Weber on the State 29 February

Seminar 7 Gramsci and Althusser 4 March

Seminar 9 Mbembe and Abrams 12 March (Seminar will take place on TUESDAY this week. 930-12)

Class XIII Popular Culture, Populism and the state, 4 April

Seminar 11 Marx on Value and Superfluous Populations (18 March)

Seminar 12 Marx on Superfluous populations and Benanav (20 March)

Seminar 14-- Group Presentations, 28 March

Social Theory Class II, 16 February

Social Theory Class III, 20 February

Social Theory Class V, 27 February

Social Theory Class VI, 2 March

Social Theory Class VII, 6 March

Social Theory Class VIII, 9 March

Social Theory Class IX, 13 March

Social Theory Class XII, 28 March

Social Theory Class XIII, 11 April

Final Class (XIV), Presentations, 14 April, 1.45-5.00

Essays 2023

Reading and Assignment link - Social Theory Class I, 14 February

Course Hons Social Theory Framework 2022

Class II Honours Lenin and Luxemburg 17 February

Class III Gramsci and Althusser, 22 February

Class IV Miliband and Abrams, 24 February

Class VI Durkheim and Adorno, 3 March

Class X Mamdani, 17 March

Class XII Globalised Modes of State Power, 24 March

Class XIV Presentations, 7 April

Theory 2022 Essay Questions

Course framework 2021

Honours Theory 2021 Seminar 2

Seminar 7: African Political Systems and Fanon on National Consciousness

Seminar 8: Susan Buck-Morss

Seminar 9: Bayart

Seminar 11: Mbembe and Trouillot

Seminar 12 Alexievich Schwenkel Fennell

Reading for Seminar 13

Seminar 15

Seminar Class 16 (Presentations)

Essay 2 2020 and 2021

Essay 1 2019 and 2020

Reading for Class 6 Benedict Anderson

Course framework 2019 and 2020

Class 5: Corrigan and Sayer

Reading for Class 13

Groups and Reading for Class 13

Essay 2 2019

Reading for Class 1.1

Course Framework 2018

Reading for Class 1.2

Essay Question 1

Class 6.1 (revised)

Class 7.1 (revised)

Class 8.1