• Login
    View Item 
    •   ResearchSpace Home
    • College of Humanities
    • School of Social Sciences
    • Economic History and Development Studies
    • Masters Degrees (Economic History and Development Studies)
    • View Item
    •   ResearchSpace Home
    • College of Humanities
    • School of Social Sciences
    • Economic History and Development Studies
    • Masters Degrees (Economic History and Development Studies)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Assessing the impact of government intervention on social capital formation and livelihood strategies of rural communities : the case of eThekwini and Ugu Municipalities - KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    Thesis (1.509Mb)
    Date
    2014
    Author
    Mchunu, Bhekamachunu Henry Zwelethu.
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Since 1994, there has been a concerted effort by the government of South Africa to support agricultural initiatives – as apparent in the promotion of collective agriculture group initiatives and a deliberate focus on creating a policy environment favoring such initiatives. The cooperative model has been adopted by government as a preferred business model for this purpose. The adoption and promotion of collective action as a model for government intervention in rural development suggests an acknowledgment of social capital as an economic development resource and asset. The past two decades have also seen growing interest in social capital among social theorists and acceptance of social capital as a resource for minimising transaction costs and transforming trade relations. The earliest known advocate of social capital is Hanifan (1916), a state supervisor of rural schools in West Virginia, United States of America. However, the concept owes its most recent resurgence in popularity to the late twentieth century theorists, particularly Coleman and Putnam (1980s), a sociologist and a political scientist respectively. This inquiry looks at the impact of government-sponsored intervention on local stock of social capital of rural communities with government’s developmental local government and rural development agendas as a backdrop. The small-scale farmer groups of Ugu District and eThekwini Municipalities in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa were purposively identified and selected for this study due to the involvement of government in both cases, albeit to varying degrees. The central argument of this inquiry is that government involvement in social capital formation could potentially retard voluntary initiative at community level and promote dependency. The qualitative approach and the interpretive paradigm underpin the methodology for the empirical aspect of this inquiry.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10413/12798
    Collections
    • Masters Degrees (Economic History and Development Studies) [4]

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2013  Duraspace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of ResearchSpaceCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisorsTypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisorsType

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    DSpace software copyright © 2002-2013  Duraspace
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    @mire NV