Hazing in South African schools and school hostels: a media analysis

Despite the banning of hazing in 2002, it is still a fairly common practice in some South African schools and school hostels. This paper uses newspaper articles as a data source and draws on the theories of cognitive dissonance and dominance to study hazing. A qualitative content analysis of 41 news...

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Main Author: Wet, Corene de (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Acta criminologica
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 149-165
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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