50 episodes

How does society create and control our social world? How do passports and passbooks function as agents of government control? And what are the purposes of citizenship tests and ceremonies? This album provides insight into how large communities are organised to regulate their social behaviour. People who lived under Apartheid in South Africa describe how their passbook governed their social world, from alcohol consumption to medical health. Philosophers, politicians and academics offer differing perspectives on requirements for citizenship and the importance of citizenship ceremonies in the UK and Australia. In the two audio tracks, course team members Liz McFall and Sophie Watson put the ideas covered in the album into their academic context. This material is taken from The Open University course DD308 Making social worlds.

Making Social Worlds - for iPod/iPhone The Open University

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- 10 FEB 2010
Making social worlds

Making social worlds

A short introduction to this album.
- 1 min
- 10 FEB 2010
Transcript -- Making social worlds

Transcript -- Making social worlds

A short introduction to this album.
- 1 JUN 2008
- video
South African passbooks

South African passbooks

Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid.
- 2 min
- 1 JUN 2008
- video
Classifying races

Classifying races

How races were classified after the introduction of the 1950 Population Registration Act.
- 34 sec
- 1 JUN 2008
Transcript -- South African passbooks

Transcript -- South African passbooks

Obligatory passbooks governed life in South Africa under Apartheid.
- 1 JUN 2008
- video
Held hostage to a passbook

Held hostage to a passbook

The impact of passbooks on the community.
- 1 min