The course embarks on the analysis of contemporary Namibian society in its varied cultural, economic, political, historical, social, and social structural aspects. This analysis is based on the comprehensive sighting of current research, thus emphasising the research orientation of the curriculum at final year level. It applies sociological perspectives learnt in the previous course of the curriculum to make sense of main features defining the Namibian society. Thus, the cardinal question that this course interrogates is ‘what the Namibian society looks like’. Main topical areas of debate are: land issue; labour migration; labour market and unemployment; industrial relations; societal development; globalisation and neo-liberalism; youth; poverty; family; gender; sexual cultures; education; media; religion; traditionalism; social structural change and post-colonial class structure; pre-colonial social formations in Namibia; colonialism, apartheid and liberation.