Cooperation, Credit and Social Integration

Michael Drinkwater

Chapter 6 in The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas, 1991, pp 192-230 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It has been argued that an analysis of social change ideally requires a theoretical framework which can be used to analyse the scope that people, as individuals or part of social collectivities, have to make their own world, within the context of the structural constraints they face. The unit of analysis in the previous chapter was the household. It was shown that even leading farmers are constrained in their ability to enhance the viability of their production by the resource limitations they experience. If individual households by themselves cannot significantly improve their positions, then the onus falls upon the organisations that structure communal area societies. Accordingly, my concern in the empirical component of this chapter is to analyse the capacity of the two societies I worked in for effective, coordinated action at this supra-household level.

Keywords: Communicative Action; Social Integration; Communal Area; Communicative Rationality; Farm Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11780-2_6

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