Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of photos
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Social entrepreneurship
- Section 2 The dynamics of social change
- Section 3 Social capital built by social entrepreneurs
- 7 Social Capital
- 8 Social Networks: Bedrock of Social Capital
- 9 Personality Traits That Facilitate the Building of Social Capital
- Section 4 A new kind of leadership
- Epilogue The Past and the Future
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Becoming a Social Entrepreneur
- Appendix 2 The Process of Assessing Candidates for a Fellowship
- Appendix 3 Excerpts from Interviews
- References
- Index
7 - Social Capital
from Section 3 - Social capital built by social entrepreneurs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of photos
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Section I Social entrepreneurship
- Section 2 The dynamics of social change
- Section 3 Social capital built by social entrepreneurs
- 7 Social Capital
- 8 Social Networks: Bedrock of Social Capital
- 9 Personality Traits That Facilitate the Building of Social Capital
- Section 4 A new kind of leadership
- Epilogue The Past and the Future
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Becoming a Social Entrepreneur
- Appendix 2 The Process of Assessing Candidates for a Fellowship
- Appendix 3 Excerpts from Interviews
- References
- Index
Summary
Reza Deghati uses a bottom-up process, empowering the target groups (women and youth) and, by extension, the whole society. The capacity of bottom-up change mechanisms is generally seen as pivotal in introducing social change (Piven, 2008), in eradicating poverty in rural areas (Blair, 2005), or in promoting health care (Carey, 2000; Edwards et al., 2003).
Another illustrative example of the bottom-up process of change is the case of a social entrepreneur who was working with post-Soviet communities whose social fiber was totally shattered by the regime that lasted more than seventy years. He started by organizing teachers’ discussion groups, starting with simple issues. Gradually the groups self-organized and became action- and solution-oriented, leading to the next step – becoming role models and seedbeds of social change in the field of education and, finally, vehicles for the buildup of civic awareness and engagement.
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- Social EntrepreneurshipTheory and Practice, pp. 80 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011