Does the Implementation of Social Safety Net Intervention Affect Indigenous Social Capital Systems for Coping with Livelihood Shocks? Ethnographic Evidence of Agro-pastoral Communities in Eastern Ethiopia

2018 ◽  
pp. 269-316
Author(s):  
Getachew Shambel Endris ◽  
Paul Kibwika ◽  
Bernard B. Obaa ◽  
Jemal Yousuf Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Eastern Ethiopia ◽  
Pastoral Communities

scholarly journals PERANAN SOCIAL CAPITAL DALAM PEMBANGUNAN EKONOMI

Agro Ekonomi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subejo Subejo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Share Tenancy ◽  
Labor Institutions ◽  
Service Groups

In the development process worldwide, researchers and scholars these days are paying more attention to the significant role of social capital. There is a growing understanding that social capital is one of the determinant factors in the economic development. The importance of social capital as a significant factor of growth has been widely and commonly acknowledged. Social capital refers to the institutions, relationship, and norms that shape the quality and quantity of society’s social intreactions. Social capital however, is not simply the sum of the institutions, which underpain a society; it is also the glue that holds them together. It includes the shared values and rules for social cinduct expressed in personal relationship, trust, and a common sense of “civic” responsibility, that makes society more than a collection of individuals.The formal study on social capital in Indonesia is still very rare. Eventhough the terminology of social capital has not been formally used, several studies on Indonesian villagers have tried to examine types and functions of human relations and cooperation. The Indonesian peasant households still attach great importance to good relations with neighbors and relatives in their community. These relations are expressed into various types of mutual and are commonly known as gotong royong tradition.It will be much more rewarding if the further studies are able to capture and cover each element of social capital dimension in rural Indonesia. Practices of local institutions in rural Indonesia such as social service groups, labor institutions for mutual help, rotational saving groups, traditional social safety net, equalized inheritance system, share tenancy forms, and service of government affairs should be included in the more advance studies.

Care Work on the Front Lines

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (820) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
Mary F. E. Ebeling
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
The Us

An ethnographic study of the work of nurse practitioners at an outpatient care facility shows how these medical professionals must endlessly multitask to fill gaps in the US social safety net. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new focus on the essential work of nurses and the lack of resources with which they often contend is especially timely.

“Willing to Do Anything for My Kids”: Inventive Mothering, Diapers, and the Inequalities of Carework

2020 ◽  
pp. 000312242097748
Author(s):  
Jennifer Randles
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Safety Net ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
White Mothers ◽  
Mothers Of Color ◽  
Depth Interviews

Prior research highlights how mothers across social classes express similar beliefs that good parenting adheres to the tenets of intensive mothering by being child-centered, time-consuming, and self-sacrificing. Yet intensive mothering ideologies emphasize parenting tactics that assume children’s basic needs are met, while ignoring how mothers in poverty devise distinctive childrearing strategies and logics to perform carework demanded by deprivation, discrimination, and a meager social safety net. I theorize inventive mothering that instead highlights the complexity and agency of poor mothers’ innovative efforts to ensure children’s access to resources, protect children from the harms of poverty and racism, and present themselves as fit parents in the context of intersecting gender, class, and race stigma. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 70 mothers who experienced diaper need, I conceptualize diaper work as a case of inventive mothering that involves extensive physical, cognitive, and emotional labor. These findings show how focusing on childrearing practices experienced as “intense” from the point of view of more affluent, white mothers perpetuates inequalities by obscuring the complex labor poor mothers, especially poor mothers of color, perform when there is limited public support for fundamental aspects of childcare.

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