HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES

Academic Year 2024: January - June

Summative Assessment 2: Sociology 1 A (HSOC131-1)
NQF Level, Credits: 5,12
Weighting: 10%
Assessment Type: Research Essay
Educator: Nabeelah Fife
Examiner: Rayhaana Sedick
Due Date: 10 June 2024
Total: 20 Marks

1. Summative Assessment 2 (SA2) must be uploaded in PDF format onto ColCampus

by no later than 10 June 2024 at 23h59 pm.
2. The essay must be a minimum of 500 (five hundred) words and should not exceed
650 (six hundred and fifty) words.
3. The essay structure must be as follows:
• Cover Page:
o Name
o Surname
o Student Number
o Name of your Support Centre (i.e. Boston, Braamfontein)
• Introduction: Tells the reader what the essay is about.
• Body / Main Content: Is based on research and relates to the essay question or
topic that has been set.
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 • Conclusion: Is a summary of what has been covered in the essay, it may also
include suggestions / recommendations.
• Reference list: (not included in the word count): the Harvard Referencing Method
must be adhered to with regards to in-text citations and the reference list.

Please make sure you read and adhere to Boston’s Harvard Method of
Referencing: A Beginner’s Guide when referencing, as well as The Beginners
Guide to Plagiarism, both are available in the HE Library module on ColCampus.

4. The essay must be typed, using the following format settings only:
• Font: Arial
• Font Size: 12
• Line Spacing: 1.5

5. For this assessment the following must be adhered to:

• You have been provided with two (2) academic sources (see below); this source
is compulsory and must be consulted and referenced when answering the
research essay.
• The compulsory source must be accessed using the HE Library module on
ColCampus unless otherwise stated, e.g., through a hyperlink.

Compulsory readings:
Make use of Chapter 9 in the prescribed textbook as well as the following:
Reading 1: Sabinet
Odimegwu, C.O. 2018. Teenage pregnancy in South Africa: Where are the young
men involved? S Afr J Child Health, (12)(2 Suppl 1):S44-S50. Retrieved from
https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.7196/SAJCH.2018.v12i2.1523 [Accessed 12
October 2023].

Reading 2: Google

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 Madlala S.T., Sibiya M.N., Nqxongo T.S.P. 2018. Perceptions of young men at the
Free State School of Nursing with regards to teenage pregnancy. African Jounal of
Primary Health Care & Family Medicine. 10(1): 2071-2936.
Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018125/pdf/PHCFM-10-1358.pdf
[Accessed, 12 October 2023]

6. Academic sources and accessing credible e-Resources:

Not all sources / texts can be classified as academic sources. Wikipedia, for example,
is not a credible academic source since authors are not identifiable, and editing an
article on this site is very easy. Also, blog posts often provide valuable information,
but are not academically sound. To judge whether a source is credible, consider the
following criteria:

• The author should be identifiable through author information, affiliations, and/or

qualifications.
• An academic source has usually been peer reviewed.
• Academic textbooks or academic journals should be published by a recognized
authority/publisher like a university, an academic publishing house, research
organisation etc.
• A list of references should be present, that is, full citations for sources used.
Thorough reference to research is a crucial characteristic of legitimate academic
work.

7. You must make use of the Harvard Method of Referencing. Refer to the examples
of referencing below:

Book, single author:

Holt, D.H. 2017. Management principles and practices. Sydney: Prentice-Hall.

Book, 2 or 3 authors:

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McCarthey, E.J., William, D.P. & Pascale, G.Q. 2017. Basic marketing. Cape
Town: Juta.

Book, more than 3 authors:

Bond, W.R., Smith, J.T., Brown, K.L. & George, M. 2016. Management of small
firms. Sydney: McGraw-Hill.

Book, no author:
Anon. 2009. A history of Greece. Athens: Cengage.

eBook:
Case, J., Marshall, D. & McKenna, S. 2018. Going to university: The influence of
higher education on the lives of young South Africans [E-book]. Cape Town:
African Minds. Retrieved from https://www.africanminds.co.za/wp-
content/uploads/2017/06/9781928331698_web.pdf [Accessed 3 June 2019].

Academic journal article with one author:

Waghid, Y. 2019. On the polemic of academic integrity in higher education. South
African Journal of Higher Education, 33(1):1–5.

Academic journal with 2 or more authors:

Waghid, Y. & Davids, N. 2019. On the polemic of academic integrity in higher
education. South African Journal of Higher Education, 33(1):1–5.

Newspaper article from a webpage:

Motshwane, G. 2019. A missed opportunity: Shakes slams Bafana's Afcon plans.
Sowetan Live, 7 June. Retrieved from
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sport/soccer/2019-06-07-a-missed-opportunity-
shakes-slams-bafanas-afcon-plans/ [Accessed 8 June 2019].

Court case:
Gold Circle (Pty) Ltd v Maharaj (1313/17) [2019] ZASCA 93 (3 June 2019).

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 Web based images (figures, graphs, maps, artwork):
Boston City Campus & Business College. 2019. Welcome [Image]. Retrieved from
https://www.boston.co.za/ [Accessed 3 June 2019].

Music or recording:
Makeba, M. 1960. The Click Song [Recording]. YouTube. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4Fp-A7IRw [Accessed 8 June 2019].

Chapter in an edited book (collected work):

Velez, C. 1978. Youth and aging in central Mexico. In B. Myerhoff & A. Simic
(eds.). Life′s career-aging: Cultural variations on growing old. San Francisco, CA:
Sage, 107–162.

8. Boston expects you to approach your work with honesty and integrity. Honesty is the
basis of respectable academic work. Whether you are working on a formative
assessment, a project, a paper (read at a conference), an article (published by a
journal), or a summative assessment essay, you should never engage in plagiarism,
unauthorized collaboration (collusion), cheating, or academic dishonesty.

Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas, and
then calls the work their own. Simply put, plagiarism is academic fraud. This includes
the ‘copy and paste’ of work from textbooks, study guides, journal articles, etc. Refer
to the Plagiarism Information Sheet in your Course Outline for further information.

9. To obtain maximum results, please consult the rubric included in this brief to ensure
that you adhere to and meet all the given criteria.

A Copyleaks Report will be issued via ColCampus once the assignment is submitted.
Please ensure that you follow the correct steps when uploading your assignment, to
ensure that the Copyleaks Report is correctly issued. If the incorrect document is
uploaded, or if no Copyleaks Report is issued, a mark of zero (0) will be awarded. If the
Copyleaks Report indicates that a 30% similarity rating has been exceeded, 25% of the
assessment total will be deducted from the final grade. Where a Copyleaks Cheat
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Detection Report is issued, your submission will automatically be treated as if you
received a similarity rating in excess of 30% and 25% of the assessment total will be
deducted from the final grade.

Question 1 [20 Marks]

Read the extract below and answer the question that follows:
Siyanda Magayana, a senior officer at the Gender Equality and Anti-discrimination office
at the University of Free State, said that gender inequality was a significant contributing
factor to teenage pregnancy in South Africa and worldwide. She said in many societies
there was still an evident imbalance of power that is gendered and could manifest in
different ways in relationships.

“This gendered power imbalance is embedded in our societal institutions of

socialisation, such as culture and traditions, for example, that teach young girls and
women that to be culturally obedient, shy away from using modern contraceptives and
effectively does not encourage exposure to sexual education and rights – while it
teaches boys and men the opposite. This, at the end of the day, often leads to a power
imbalance between the two genders – one that is empowered (male) and one that is not
empowered and encouraged (female).

“It further leads to a situation where young girls are pressured and coerced into sexual
activity or being unable to negotiate the terms of their sexual relationships as they are
still encouraged and expected to be conservative in how they carry themselves, while
young boys are taught to explore their sexuality at a very young age - they are not
exploring alone.

Source: Mashele, F. 2023. Is teenage pregnancy becoming a norm in South Africa? IOL. Retrieved from
https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/is-teenage-pregnancy-becoming-a-norm-in-sa-91f2571c-
c659-4911-b84b-b0028bb1d7d6 [Accessed 26 January 2024].

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Refer to the Compulsory sources provided to answer the question successfully. In
addition, you may select one (1) additional academic article of your choice to support your
answer.

Teenage pregnancy concerns have had a gendered focus by placing emphasis on

females only.

Required:
In an essay of no more than 650 words, discuss the role of males within the sexual
controversy of teenage pregnancy. In your essay, evaluate and discuss the underlying
factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy.

In your discussion, include the following aspects:

• Discuss the controversy of teenage pregnancy.

• Discuss possible reasons as to why the emphasis is placed on females regarding

teenage pregnancy.

• Discuss the role of males within the sexual controversy of teenage pregnancy

• Identify and discuss the underlying factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy.

Compulsory readings:
Reading 1: Sabinet
Odimegwu, C.O. 2018. Teenage pregnancy in South Africa: Where are the young
men involved? S Afr J Child Health, (12)(2 Suppl 1):S44-S50. Retrieved from
https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.7196/SAJCH.2018.v12i2.1523 [Accessed 12
October 2023].

Reading 2: Google

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 Madlala S.T., Sibiya M.N., Nqxongo T.S.P. 2018. Perceptions of young men at the
Free State School of Nursing with regards to teenage pregnancy. African Jounal of
Primary Health Care & Family Medicine. 10(1): 2071-2936.
Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018125/pdf/PHCFM-10-1358.pdf
[Accessed, 12 October 2023]

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The following learning outcomes are assessed in this assessment:

• Unit 7 – Chapter 9

• Discuss several current controversies involving sexuality.

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