Relevance Guides Research and Services

The Arizona Hospitality Research and Resource Center of the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management at Northern Arizona University was established to support the state\u27s hospitality industry and students of the school. Primary services available to industry through the center include applied research (with specialization in predictive methods), educational seminars and on-site consulting. The AHRRC is able to take advantage of existing university infrastructure (expertise, facilities, field operations, communication vehicles and technology) to achieve its purpose and effectively serve its constituencies throughout the state

Administrative sociology and apartheid

Although sociological discourses are multiple and varied, with deeply critical versions challenging the auspices of apartheid, there is also a strand of what I call ‘administrativesociology’ that actively defined, supported and defended the vanguard of apartheid thinking and practice. It cloaked its biopolitical commitments beneath images of scientific neutrality, casting as necessary its assertions about apartheid society. The legacy of this strand of sociology remains subject to few explicit critiques, and its complicity in social atrocities is under-referenced (despite the decisive role of such professors of sociology as Hendrik Verwoerd, Jan De Wet Keyter and Geoffrey Cronjé). This article charts a brief genealogy of administrative sociology in context, focusing especially on the approach Cronjé adopted in his inaugural address, and indicating several dangers that attend to this sort of administrative sociology whose logic is still evident in strands of the discipline