Social Capital
Social Capital
Dini Harmita
Tomorrow I am going to present my bachelor thesis in the Seminar of master students. I wrote the bachelor thesis 13 years ago, I hope I will still remember it.
Since I am waiting for my friends and I don't know what to do I decided to write a bit about what I am going to present tomorrow. The title of my bachelor thesis is Social Capital of Sundanese Woman with Less than A Half Hectare Land in Poverty. I compared cases between natural tourism village and cultural tourism village in Gunung Halimun Salak National Park.
First, please imagine a beautiful woman, dressed up, touched up, full of sincerity, humble, yet is raised to get married instead of having higher education, that's a Sundanese woman. Second, please imagine Pierre Bourdieu. I didn't know who is he until my advisor at that time Dr. Ivanovich Augusta from Bogor Agricultural University suggested me to use his theory.
Basically, Bourdieu in Harmita (2006) divided capitals into economic, social and cultural capital. Economic is institutionalized with land owning, income and expenditure, property, etc. Social capital is institutionalized with exchange of acquisition and knowledge in network. Cultural capital is institutionalized in the forms of education either it is formal, informal or non-formal education.
Basically Bourdieu doesn't have any specific factors therefore I had to use many other theories to explain his theories. One of theories I used is seven inequalities of Amartya Sen's.
Given that poverty and inequality has correlation, I managed to find that Sundanese woman loves to use kitchen as a place where they exchange their acquisition and knowledge which leads them to gaining income as their economic capital.
I managed to find that capital doesn't have to be accumulated. One capital can produce or generate other capitals.
However Bourdieu sometimes couldn't explain his theory empirically therefore sometimes he wrote it in the forms of literature. He divided the capital as if he divided the world. He saw the world as capital.
Prof. Sajogyo praised my bachelor thesis because it has 70 literatures. I got those literatures from his library, the library of Sajogyo Institute. I was so happy because I was surrounded by many sources.
The examiners of my bachelor thesis also praised my bachelor thesis as a doctoral thesis because it's difficult to use Bourdieu's theory. "It's too much", said one of them.
I don't praise my own bachelor thesis of course, simply because I still had so many data which remained un-analyzed. I could do more than that.
Through this post I would like to emphasize that no matter what our background is, Sundanese, Javanese, Chinese, Japanese, Balinese, etc., we always have ability to generate our other capitals by focusing to one capital that we are good at it. For example, if we have social capital, that's enough to build our economic capital and cultural capital. If we have economic capital, it should also be enough for building other capitals. It is not necessary to accumulate capitals because even capitals interact each other.
Ijo desu ;).
References
Dini Harmita
Tomorrow I am going to present my bachelor thesis in the Seminar of master students. I wrote the bachelor thesis 13 years ago, I hope I will still remember it.
Since I am waiting for my friends and I don't know what to do I decided to write a bit about what I am going to present tomorrow. The title of my bachelor thesis is Social Capital of Sundanese Woman with Less than A Half Hectare Land in Poverty. I compared cases between natural tourism village and cultural tourism village in Gunung Halimun Salak National Park.
First, please imagine a beautiful woman, dressed up, touched up, full of sincerity, humble, yet is raised to get married instead of having higher education, that's a Sundanese woman. Second, please imagine Pierre Bourdieu. I didn't know who is he until my advisor at that time Dr. Ivanovich Augusta from Bogor Agricultural University suggested me to use his theory.
Basically, Bourdieu in Harmita (2006) divided capitals into economic, social and cultural capital. Economic is institutionalized with land owning, income and expenditure, property, etc. Social capital is institutionalized with exchange of acquisition and knowledge in network. Cultural capital is institutionalized in the forms of education either it is formal, informal or non-formal education.
Basically Bourdieu doesn't have any specific factors therefore I had to use many other theories to explain his theories. One of theories I used is seven inequalities of Amartya Sen's.
Given that poverty and inequality has correlation, I managed to find that Sundanese woman loves to use kitchen as a place where they exchange their acquisition and knowledge which leads them to gaining income as their economic capital.
I managed to find that capital doesn't have to be accumulated. One capital can produce or generate other capitals.
However Bourdieu sometimes couldn't explain his theory empirically therefore sometimes he wrote it in the forms of literature. He divided the capital as if he divided the world. He saw the world as capital.
Prof. Sajogyo praised my bachelor thesis because it has 70 literatures. I got those literatures from his library, the library of Sajogyo Institute. I was so happy because I was surrounded by many sources.
The examiners of my bachelor thesis also praised my bachelor thesis as a doctoral thesis because it's difficult to use Bourdieu's theory. "It's too much", said one of them.
I don't praise my own bachelor thesis of course, simply because I still had so many data which remained un-analyzed. I could do more than that.
Through this post I would like to emphasize that no matter what our background is, Sundanese, Javanese, Chinese, Japanese, Balinese, etc., we always have ability to generate our other capitals by focusing to one capital that we are good at it. For example, if we have social capital, that's enough to build our economic capital and cultural capital. If we have economic capital, it should also be enough for building other capitals. It is not necessary to accumulate capitals because even capitals interact each other.
Ijo desu ;).
References
Harmita, Dini. 2006. Social Capital of Sundanese Woman with Less
than A Half Hectare Land in Poverty. Bogor, Indonesia: Bogor Agricultural
University.
