scholarly journals PERANAN SOCIAL CAPITAL DALAM PEMBANGUNAN EKONOMI

Agro Ekonomi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subejo Subejo

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.

2021 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Nurbaya Busthanul ◽  
Anwar Sulili ◽  
Sitti Bulkis ◽  
Tamzil Ibrahim ◽  
Yopie Lumoindong ◽  
...  

Social capital is one of the conditions that must be met in the development process. Weak social capital will reduce the spirit of mutual cooperation, exacerbate poverty, increase unemployment and crime and can hinder any efforts to improve social welfare. This research uses a combination method or better known as a mixed method, which is a combination of qualitative research and quantitative research. The results of the study illustrate that in the hallway garden community, the potential for social capital is relatively high as seen through the elements of social capital, trust, institutions and networks. This can be seen in the daily life of the community, such as mutual trust in the harmonious neighbors, kinship, helping nature, mutual help, social solidarity, being cooperative, and all of these appear in the collective behavior of the community in the form of urban farming activities.


Author(s):  
Yuhelson Yuhelson ◽  
Ramlani Lina Sinaulan ◽  
Abdul Rahmat

This study explores the dynamic of early-age marriage and implementing social protection concepts for households’ women victims in Gorontalo. This research uses qualitative method with explorative-inductive approaches. We were collected data by interviews, observation, and documentation. Resulting studies that early-age marriage cases in Gorontalo effected by low education, patriarchy system, domestic violence, divorced, and multi-dimensional poverty. For that, this study recommended that social control be worked fine, where the role of parent’, education, and community—create a social safety net for getting better—this role of parents and educational institutions in implementing the protection concept as a social policy reformulation material.Studi ini mengeksplorasi dinamika pernikahan dini dan skema perlindungan sosial yang tepat bagi perempuan korban kekerasan dalam ruamh tangga di Gorontalo. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan eksploratif-induktif. Data dikumpulkan dengan wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa kasus pernikahan dini di Gorontalo disebabkan oleh rendahnya tingkat pendidikan, budaya patriarkhi, kekerasan dalam rumah tangga, perceraian, dan kemiskinan multidimensi. Untuk itu, studi ini merekomendasikan agar kontrol sosial dapat berfungsi dengan baik—peran orang tua, sekolah, dan komunitas—agar social safety net berjalan dengan baik. Peran ini tercermin dalam konsep perlindungan sebagai bahan untuk reformulasi kebijakan sosial. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 01001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deny Hidayati

As a country with high risk of disasters, the people of Indonesia have to prepare and anticipate these calamities. One of the most important aspects of disaster risk reduction at the local level is social capital. This paper discusses the role of social capital in strengthening community disaster preparedness for effective respond and its potential for building back after recovery, focusing on local wisdom, prior experiences and re-establishment of community livelihoods. Local wisdom plays an important role in raising community efforts to find relief and recover from the impact of the earthquake in Bantul and floods in Jambi. The spirit of community-self, mutual help and fundraising help the Javanese in Bantul to be strong and care among neighbors. The community that supported by the local leaders and institutions agreed to set up priority for affected people who need more help. Meanwhile, experiences of the people in Jambi on regular floods made them aware and assisted them to develop self-efficacy beliefs in disaster preparedness, including making plans as well as increasing skill to get ready for and respond to this disaster. This paper also shows that in addition to economic recovery programs from the government and donor in Bantul and Aceh, the community in Jambi used floods as a source of their alternative livelihood through fishing and its related activities, and perceived floods as economic opportunities. This paper utilises empirical evidence from cases across Indonesia that are collected from my research results under LIPI and Human Ecology research activities. Data is also collected from secondary sources that largely rely on desk reviews of relevant books, documents, papers, and other references.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Rebekka Christopoulou ◽  
Maria Pantalidou

Abstract Labor market conditions in Greece have severely deteriorated during the crisis, affecting youths the most. Using the Greek crisis as a case-study, this paper examines the role of the family as a social safety net for its young members. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor outcomes and parental co-residence, whether this relationship has become stronger during the crisis, and the degree to which the relationship is causal. Our results confirm that the parental home is a refuge both for jobless youth and for those in poorly paid, insecure jobs, and this role has intensified during the crisis. We find no reverse causality between co-residence and employment status for young men, and significant reverse causality for women. This finding implies that all youths live in the parental home when they are in need themselves, but it is young women not men who live with parents when parents are in need or for cultural reasons.


Author(s):  
Tracy Roof

This chapter examines the role of interest groups in shaping American social welfare policy. It outlines major theories and findings on interest group influence in American politics and comparative welfare state development and examines the activities and influence of major categories of groups, including business, labor, agriculture, professional associations, intergovernmental organizations, and citizens’ groups. Although many interest groups have helped secure policies that form a limited social safety net, this chapter suggests that the competition among a diverse array of interest groups in a fragmented political system makes policy change difficult. This tendency towards gridlock, which favors the interests of some groups over others, has constrained the size and redistribution of the American welfare state.


Author(s):  
Olga Biosca ◽  
Neil McHugh ◽  
Fatma Ibrahim ◽  
Rachel Baker ◽  
Tim Laxton ◽  
...  

Financially vulnerable, low-income individuals are more likely to experience financial exclusion as they are unable to access financial services that meet their needs. How do they cope with economic instability, and what is the role of social networks in their coping strategies? Using financial diaries, we explore the day-to-day monetary transactions (n = 16,889) of forty-five low-to-moderate income individuals with restricted access to mainstream lending in Glasgow, UK, over a six-month period. Our sample includes users of microcredit and financial advice, as well as nonusers of these services. Findings reveal that informal lending to avoid the pernicious effects of short-term illiquidity was pervasive among these individuals. However, taking informal loans often strains valuable social capital and keeps people from building up a formal credit footprint. Our findings suggest that financially vulnerable populations would benefit from policies that focus on alternative financial mechanisms to help stabilize income-insecure individuals in the short-term.


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