South African Principalship, Agency & Intersectionality Theory

Intersectionality: Multiple Inequalities in Social Theory

The concept of intersectionality is reviewed and further developed for more effective use. Six dilemmas in the debates on the concept are disentangled, addressed and resolved: the distinction between structural and political intersectionality; the tension between ‘categories’ and ‘inequalities’; the significance of class; the balance between a fluidity and stability; the varyingly competitive, ...

State , Myth , and Agency in the Construction of Chinese South African Identities , 1948 - 1994

Based on the author’s PhD research, this article focuses on the fluid and contested nature of the identities – racial, ethnic, and national – of people of Chinese descent in South Africa in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras. The research focused on the approximately 12,000-strong community of second-, third-, and fourth-generation South African-born Chinese South Africans. It uncovered that...

Mobility within the Principalship

Principals, superintendents, and other administrators can and do move between jobs that carry the same official title. Such movement is reflected in position turnover (for example, as a principal or a superintendent moves from one school to another) but need not generate overall job vacancies. Our analysis generated little empirical support for the idea that there is a nationwide crisis in the ...

The promise of intersectionality theory in primary care.

1 Agency Theory

This note considers the simplest possible organization: one boss (or “Principal”) and one worker (or “Agent”). One of the earliest applications of this Principal-Agent model was to sharecropping, where the landowner was the Principal and the tenant farmer the Agent, but in this course we will typically talk about more familiar organization structures. For example, we might consider a firm’s sha...