Autonomous and directed cultural change: South African urbanization.

To study the interactive relationship between cities and culture in South Africa, the author distinguishes between autonomous and directed cultural change. In their attempt to achieve political ends, Afrikaners and their Nationalist Party had to modify culture, and have greatly altered the process of urbanisation in respect of not only Black Africans but also the Coloured and Afrikaners themselves. The impact of directed cultural change has been particularly evident in social patterning, overwhelming the allocation processes of the market. -after Author