Abstract
Abstract The role of sociology in South African society: The past. Using the concept of institutionalization this paper deals with the early history of sociology in South Africa. Available accounts of this history largely ignore the substantial literature which developed from 1900 onwards. This literature, which is recorded in the bibliography and interpreted for the first time in this context, unfolded a prehistory to the institutionalization of sociology in South Africa. Counter to what is generally believed, it is suggested that pre-institutional sociology in South Africa was in fact relevant to development problems of all the groups in this society. However, indigenous varieties of standard sociology developed with the institutionalization of sociology during the thirties, some of which related sectionally to white poverty.
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