scholarly journals Can weak ties create social capital? Evidence from Self-Help Groups in rural India

2021 ◽  
Vol 146 ◽  
pp. 105534
Author(s):  
Ashwini Deshpande ◽  
Shantanu Khanna
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups

scholarly journals Perceived Social Networks and Newborn Health: Evidence from Self-Help Group Communities in Northern India

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Ruducha ◽  
Xinran Huang ◽  
James Potter ◽  
Divya Hariharan ◽  
Danish Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Newborn Health ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Health Advice ◽  
Advice Networks ◽  
Self Help Groups

The limitations of individual level interventions in changing behaviors to improve global maternal, newborn and child health have generated more interest in the patterns of social influence and decision making embedded in families, friends and communities. The purpose of this study is to expand the understanding of village dynamics in India and how first degree social and advice networks and cognitive perceptions of 185 recently delivered women (RDW) in areas with and without women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) affect immediate breastfeeding. Data was collected in 6 blocks and 36 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India. The expansion of RDW’s social worlds and creation of social capital through the organization of Self-Help Groups in their villages allowed us to examine basic relationships and advice formation as well as perceptions of interconnectedness of known groups. RDW living in SHG villages and blocks had consistently higher numbers of relationship ties, health advice ties and higher density of health advice networks than RDW living in the non-SHG areas. RDW’s perceived knowing ties were also significantly higher between family and health workers in the SHG areas with related higher immediate breastfeeding rates. These results suggest that SHGs can accelerate community social capital and promote more accountability in the health system to engage with families and support the change from traditional to more evidence-based health practices.

Why Do the Bonded Fear Freedom?

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunit Singh ◽  
Rama Charan Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Silica Sand ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Agency Beliefs ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Personal Functioning

The article discusses the case of the Kol tribal people who have been working as bonded labourers in the stone quarries and silica sand mines near Allahabad, India. It analyses the conditions and factors that have been responsible for keeping them bonded for many generations. The article details and discusses a social intervention made by us to ensure sustainable freedom for these bonded tribal. The intervention focused on conscientisation of the public and government departments and also of the larger community. It sought to reduce fear of freedom of the bonded, and attempted to change their agency beliefs. It also focused on developing the binding and bridging components of social capital to improve their inter-personal functioning in order to strengthen the SHGs (self-help groups) which they had formed and also the Federation of the SHGs.

scholarly journals Whether Modular Capacity Building Tools are Effective in Empowering Self Help Groups (SHGs) in Rural India?

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1181-1185
Author(s):  
V. Sangeetha ◽  
◽  
Nishi Sharma ◽  
Monika Wason ◽  
Premlata Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Rural India ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Modular Capacity

scholarly journals Microfinance in Fishery Sector: Social Capital as an Agent of Empowerment

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 7059-7063
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Self Help Groups

The paper is a critical review of studies to understand the role of social capital in the empowerment of fishing communities who avail the assistance of microfinance institutions. The findings showed that studies on empowerment of communities by social capital were less. However, a substantial amount of studies analysed the concept of deployment of social capital as an assertion for the repayments of the loans obtained from the microfinance institutions. In addition to the above, the number of studies on the function of social capital in the empowerment of fishing communities who obtained financial assistances from microfinance institutions was rare. Although a few studies that investigated the attainment of knowledge and balanced utilisation of the available resources were obtained, studies that concentrated extensively on the on the beneficiaries in the fishery sector were found to be scarce. There were a sparse number of studies that elucidated the characteristics of the microfinance institutions as well as the groups of the beneficiaries of these institutions that affect the generation of a strong social capital among the group members. In conclusion, this review opens up various avenues for future research. Studies that scrutinise the difficulties of the members of self-help groups in the fisheries sector in employing the knowledge gained and resources attained from social capital established in their group and the consequent changes in their performance in their business can be carried out. Apart from the aforementioned future study opportunity, comprehensive studies on the policies to develop the social capital of the groups of the beneficiaries of the microfinance institutions can be carried out

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