ABSTRACT
It is not difficult to document discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa. More problematic, however, is the task of specifying the causes. In attempting to do so, most researchers have adopted a macro or structural approach and usually made use of quantitative methods. In other words, they have attempted to explain discrimination in terms of historically given, structural features of the wider society (e.g., social stratification, distribution of power, economic system, belief system, etc.) and have usually drawn their conclusions from quantitative analyses of data from official statistics and, frequently, large-scale surveys.
