Embeddedness dilemma and alternative commoditization of social economy in rural China: a case study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufei He ◽  
Ernest Wing Tak Chui
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cash Income ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Marketization Reform

Abstract This article identifies different aspects of the embeddedness dilemma in a rural social economy project in South China. The term ‘alternative commodification’ is proposed to summarize the practitioners’ strategy. This strategy highlighted social embeddedness of economic development, but on the other hand involved the village deeper into the commodification process. Participants of the project only focused on newly emerged economic opportunities, with little concern of the embeddedness goal. Based on social transformation theory of Wright, the article also identifies two social reproduction mechanisms brought by marketization reform as structural barriers for realizing embeddedness goal: universal commodification and consumerism, both of which intensify villagers’ demand for cash income and ignorance of social dimensions of the project. Future research also needs to identify more barriers and methods to overcome obstacles in the process of developing social economy.

scholarly journals Violence against women as the risk for social transformation

Temida ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Miletic-Stepanovic
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Relation ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Intensity Analysis ◽  
Transformation Theory ◽  
Risk Capital ◽  
Violent Behaviors ◽  
Four Levels

Violence against women is social risk, active at three levels: individual, group and global. Global level of risk is risk for social transformation. Theory of P. Bourdieu, and basic concepts: social reproduction, habitus, risk, capital, are used in the paper. Index of violence is generated by seven modes of violent behaviors, and four levels of intensity. Analysis steams into two directions: it researches violence against women as social relation, and relations between violence against women and social position.

Migration, Crises, and Social Transformation in India Since the 1990s

2018 ◽  
pp. 260-278
Author(s):  
Smriti Rao ◽  
Vamsi Vakulabharanam
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Marriage Migration ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Economic Migration ◽  
Agrarian Crisis

Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. This chapter understands internal migration in India to be a reordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. The chapter argues that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve stable, rooted livelihoods.

scholarly journals Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097265
Author(s):  
Matthew Thompson ◽  
Alan Southern ◽  
Helen Heap
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economies ◽  
The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-333
Author(s):  
Ning Hsieh ◽  
Stef M. Shuster
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Research on the social dimensions of health and health care among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) has grown rapidly in the last two decades. However, a comprehensive review of the extant interdisciplinary scholarship on SGM health has yet to be written. In response, we offer a synthesis of recent scholarship. We discuss major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine. Within this synthesis, we also consider the conceptual and methodological limitations that continue to beleaguer the field and offer suggestions for several promising directions for future research and theory building. SGM health bridges the scholarly interests in social and health sciences and contributes to broader sociological concerns regarding the persistence of sexuality- and gender-based inequalities.

scholarly journals “A reward rather than a right”: Facilitators’ perspectives on the place of music in Norwegian prison exceptionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
Áine Mangaoang
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Music Activities

Scholarship on prison music-making projects and programmes to date has largely overlooked the perspectives of prison music facilitators, who form an integral part of many prison music activities. The aim of the study, which was exploratory in nature, was to contribute to a better understanding overall of the relationship between music and imprisonment by focusing on the perspectives of prison music practitioners. Drawing from data collected in four Norwegian prisons through ethnographic research, data was analysed thematically with four key themes emerging: interpersonal communication and emotional connection; social responsibility; prison system and environment, and (in)difference and exclusion. The findings highlight the fact that the range of prison music activities offered in many Norwegian prisons affects music facilitators deeply in a number of ways, and support existing studies that find that prison music practices can contribute to creating a community of caring individuals both inside and outside prisons. Notably, the emergence of the (in)difference and exclusion theme demonstrates a more critical and nuanced view of prison music facilitators’ experiences as going beyond simplistic, romantic notions of music’s function in social transformation. Concerns raised for those who appear to be excluded or differentiated from music-making opportunities in prison – in particular foreign nationals and women – suggest that (even) in the Norwegian context, music in prisons remains a “reward” rather than a fundamental “right.” This study marks a step towards a richer and more critical understanding of prison musicking and aims to inform future research, practice, and the processes involved in the possibilities for offering music in prisons.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Islam Inklusif Pesantren ( Kajian Historis - Sosiologis di Indonesia )

FIKROTUNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syamsul Huda Rohmadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Second Development ◽  
Diverse Cultures

Transformasi pesantren ke arah modernitas untuk menyongsong pengaruh dari luar peranan pada kyai sebagai figur pemimpin. Ada pesantren yang tetap mempertahankan misi pesantren sebagai lembaga tafaqquh fiddin, akan tetapi ada juga pesantren yang didesain sebagai lembaga yang bergerak di bidang sosial ekonomi keagamaan di samping pengkajian kitab-kitab klasik sebagai ciri khas pesantren. Inklusif adalah keterbukaan sikap dalam menerima keberbedaan dengan tetap berinteraksi dalam kehidupan, sehingga dalam konteks kultur yang beraneka ragam. Perlunya pesantren lembaga pendidikan melihat proses transformasi sosial dan yang kedua pengembangan pesantren tidak tercerabut dari akar tradisinya Kata Kunci : Islam Inklusif, Pesantren  The transformation of pesantren toward modernity to meet the influence from outside role on kyai as leader figure. There is a boarding school that still maintains the mission of pesantren as a tafaqquh fiddin institution, but there are also pesantren designed as an institution engaged in the field of religious social economy in addition to the study of the classic books as a characteristic of pesantren.Inclusive is the openness of attitudes in accepting diversity by staying interacting in life, so in the context of diverse cultures. The need for pesantren educational institutions to see the process of social transformation and the second development of pesantren not tercerabut from the roots of tradition. Keywords: Inclusive Islam, Boarding School.    

Mechanisms of Matriculation: School Counseling Resources and College Going for Latino Men

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2110400
Author(s):  
Tracy Arámbula Ballysingh ◽  
Virginia Snodgrass Rangel ◽  
Eliaquin A. Gonell ◽  
Victor Benito Sáenz
Keyword(s):  
School Counseling ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
School Counselor ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Latino Men ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
College Going ◽  
Latino Boys ◽  
11Th Grade

This study extends prior work on the college-going efforts of Latino boys and adolescents (Latinos) by examining the extent to which meeting with a school counselor is related to their college-going aspirations and whether they apply to and ultimately matriculate to college. The study utilizes social capital and social reproduction theories to hypothesize about school counselors’ role in Latinos’ postsecondary matriculation. Utilizing data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we used logistic regression to test the hypotheses that contact with a school counselor is related to an increased likelihood of intent to matriculate, application to 4-year institutions, and enrollment in college. We found that Latinos were just as likely as their White counterparts to aspire to college and just as likely to enroll if they applied. Moreover, those odds were not related to having visited a school counselor in ninth or 11th grade. We also found that Latinos who met with a school counselor in ninth grade were significantly less likely to apply to a 4-year institution while those who met with a counselor in 11th grade were significantly more likely to apply. We discuss the implications of our findings in light of existing research and make recommendations for future research and practice.

Kin-Mode Contradictions, Crises, and Transformations in the Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley E. Ensor
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
System P ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Demographic Growth

A Marxist perspective considers contradictions within modes of production that ultimately lead to crises and transformations to other modes, providing a framework for interpreting political economic change in human societies. This chapter describes how kinship and marriage structure social relations of production and contradictions in kin-modes that may lead to social transformations. An archaeological framework for making inferences on kinship and marriage is applied to the Archaic periods of the Lower Mississippi Valley to explain the enigmatic development of early mound-building foraging societies and their dissolution in the Tchefuncte period. The Archaic periods reflect competitive “Crow/Omaha” kinship and marriage—explaining mound building and widespread craft production and exchange—that experienced the disproportionate demographic growth among descent groups hypothesized to cause crises in social reproduction. This was followed by a social transformation in the Tchefuncte period to bilateral descent networks with a less competitive “complex” marriage system.

Agrarian struggle and food system injustice in the Anglo-Caribbean: centering social reproduction by (re)turning to Creft and Fanon

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Tessa Barry ◽  
Levi Gahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Food System ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Emancipatory Praxis ◽  
And Gender

This piece offers a critical commentary on the historical-systemic marginalization and food system injustice being experienced by women farmers, agro-producers, and cottage industry owners in the Caribbean. In doing so, we provide an overview of the structural barriers and systemic negligence rural working-class and cash-poor women across the Anglo-Caribbean face as a result of the ongoing trajectories of colonialism, neoliberal logics, and patriarchal norms. In addition, the piece details the disproportionate amount of (devalued) socially reproductive labor women perform within the agrarian Majority World. We end by proposing that the radical potentials, emancipatory praxis, and clarion calls for transformative change offered by the region’s very own Jacqueline Creft and Frantz Fanon are revolutionary voices to pay heed to with respect to advancing a sustainable and (gender) just Caribbean future.

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