Beyond sociology: structure, agency, and strategy among tenants in India

Wendy Olsen
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Wendy Olsen: University of Manchester

No 021/2008, SCEME Working Papers: Advances in Economic Methodology from SCEME

Abstract: This paper arises from the Global Poverty Research Group, under which I have conducted fieldwork about land rental relationships in rural south India. The paper introduces strategies as a solution to the theorists' dilemma of choice vs. constraints with particular respect to rural tenants' decisions. My aim is to treat tenants (as both households and as individual agents) in their structural contexts whilst respecting the complexity and co-mutuality of their agency.

Keywords: globalisation; India; agency; economic sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 O17 O12 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa and nep-pke
Date: 2008-01

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