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Record W2092830329 · doi:10.1177/097133360501700204

The Dynamics of Oppression

2005· article· en· W2092830329 on OpenAlex
Josephine C. Naidoo, Devi Rajab

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Bibliographic record

VenuePsychology and Developing Societies · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOppressionGender studiesContext (archaeology)Grounded theorySociologyDemocracyWhite (mutation)CriminologyPoliticsPolitical scienceQualitative researchLawSocial scienceHistory

Abstract

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Asian Indians arrived in South Africa in 1860 during the era of the British Empire. Three occupational groups were represented: indentured agricultural workers, business entrepreneurs and a few professionals. Their presence was not welcomed by White South Africa. The ideology of Apartheid (“separateness”) ushered in oppressive legislation for all Non-Whites from 1948 until the first democratic elections of 1994, a period of trauma, violence and pain for Non-White peoples. This report centres on traumatic personal experiences during Apartheid of 100 Asian Indians, 54 males and 46 females, professional and business people, Hindus, Muslims and Christians, living in segregated racial zones of metropolitan Durban, South Africa. These traumatic incidents yielded six basic themes identified by the technique of constant comparative analysis, a central qualitative analytical approach in grounded theory. Four themes related directly to Apartheid laws; two themes to interactions with the White public and police, invariably involving abuse. The experiences created emotional distress, powerlessness, anger and fear. Few risked protesting discriminatory laws as most were immobilised by fear. Forty-six % judged they adapted to the Apartheid system, and most were aware of its psychological effects. Illustrating with excerpts from the reported experiences, a psycho-socio-political analysis of the dynamics of oppression is presented in the context of the stages of conscientisation to empowerment (Prilleltensky & Gonick, 1996).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.705
Threshold uncertainty score0.823

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.181
GPT teacher head0.569
Teacher spread0.388 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it