Abstract
Social change and large-scale transformations are as important to everyday life sociology as to macro sociology approaches. South Africa has been a ‘hotspot’ of change with a number of such transitions occurring in a condensed time-period, in particular regarding ‘race’ matters. A large South African family collection, concerning the Forbes family, is used to explore how the processes of change regarding the racial order can be analysed within an everyday sociology framework, focusing on the period 1850 to 1930. A range of documents throwing light on ‘the space of the day’, ‘the world and the word’ and other aspects of everyday experience are discussed.
Highlights
Social change and large-scale transformations are as important to everyday life sociology as to macro sociology approaches
The more formalised and abstract the writing codes and genre conventions, the less black people are represented; and the closer to the lived experience of everyday life the representational order is, the more their presence comes into focus
Black labour as the key technology continues in these writings from 1860 and David and Kate Forbes at Doorn Kloof farm, to Kate’s old age at Athole in the late 1910s and death in 1922, to 1930; and it underpinned both a way of life and a mode of production dependent on resident African peasant-farmers
Summary
Social change and large-scale transformations are as important to everyday life sociology as to macro sociology approaches. Letters, racial order, scriptural economy, social change, South Africa
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