Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns
About: This article is published in Sociology.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 189 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hausa & Yoruba.
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities is surveyed, and how domestic networks influence international trade through their impact on domestic market structure.
Abstract: The first two main sections survey the roles of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities, respectively. The next section covers how domestic networks influence international trade through their impact on domestic market structure. Two overarching questions unify these sections: how do networks affect efficiency, and will networks grow or shrink in importance for international trade over time. The last main sections develop research agendas for two less studied areas: the role of intermediaries who can connect foreign agents to domestic networks and the ability of transnational production networks to facilitate technology transfer.
1,197 citations
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about race and ethnicity in the contemporary environment, with a focus on race and ethnic relations.
Abstract: Contemporary discussion about race has a tendency to set off out without first checking the rear view mirror. In Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives, in contrast, Murji and Solomos identify what has and has not been covered, and so appeal at the outset for a ‘more sustained’ account of changing research agendas of race and ethnic relations. Taken as a whole, the collection allows the editors to contemplate ‘what factors explain the mobilizing power of ideas about race and ethnicity in the contemporary environment?’ and whether indeed ‘it is the “real” rather than race that should be placed in quotation marks’. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 16 July 2015; Accepted 6 October 2015
648 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the evolution of the macro-processus de l'organisation sociale en Afrique, i.e., de la signification of certains concepts-cles comme les concepts de groupe domestique, de lignage, de famille.
Abstract: Evolution depuis une vingtaine d'annees des themes et des approches des recherches sur l'organisation sociale en Afrique. Etude detaillee de la signification de certains concepts-cles comme les concepts de groupe domestique, de lignage, de famille. Les nouvelles tendances de l'etude des macro-processus de l'organisation sociale. Revue de la litterature sur la stabilite matrimoniale et la polygynie comme exemple des possibilites de comprehension de problemes particuliers dans le contexte de processus historiques plus vastes.
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TL;DR: The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like non-family firms and professionalize, concluding that despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to do so or do so only partially.
Abstract: The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like nonfamily firms and “professionalize.” Despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to do so or do so only partially. The authors reflect on why this might be so, and the range of possible modes of professionalization. They derive six ideal types: (a) minimally professional family firms; (b) wealth dispensing, private family firms; (c) entrepreneurially operated family firms; (d) entrepreneurial family business groups; (e) pseudo-professional, public family firms; and (f) hybrid professional family firms. The authors conclude with suggestions for further research that is attentive to such variation.
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...” Examples of these where benefits to business have been substantial include the West Highlands Asian clothing industry (Ram, 1994), fashion shoes (Blim, 1990), long-distance trade (Cohen, 1969), ship building (Ingram & Lifschitz, 2006), and textiles (Farrell, 1993); for an example of early positive and later negative effects, see Karra, Tracey, and Phillips (2006)....
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...…to business have been substantial include the West Highlands Asian clothing industry (Ram, 1994), fashion shoes (Blim, 1990), long-distance trade (Cohen, 1969), ship building (Ingram & Lifschitz, 2006), and textiles (Farrell, 1993); for an example of early positive and later negative effects,…...
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...All these can be the basis for what Cohen (1969) called “informal interest groups.”...
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19 Feb 2004
TL;DR: Risk and poverty -life and risk, risk in poor rural economics the risk coping strategies of the rural poor -reducing exposure to shocks risk sharing the limits to risk coping -the limits to self-protection, sharing and power, risk sharing and credit, information asymmetries, risk saring networks, the breakdown of the solidarity system risk and inequality -a stylized economy, no marketable assets, accumulation with no sharing, accumulation and risk sharing, imperfect commitment, risk and poverty trap risk and development -nutrition and human capital, risk-and technological innovation, commercial
Abstract: Risk and poverty - life and risk, risk in poor rural economics the risk coping strategies of the rural poor - reducing exposure to shocks risk sharing the limits to risk coping - the limits to self-protection, sharing and power, risk sharing and credit, information asymmetries, risk saring networks, the breakdown of the solidarity system risk and inequality - a stylized economy, no marketable assets, accumulation with no sharing, accumulation and risk sharing, imperfect commitment, risk and poverty trap risk and development - nutrition and human capital, risk and technological innovation, commercial crops vs. subsistence farming, precautionary saving and investment constraints, risk sharing and risk taking conclusion - what we have learned, what we do not know, what local governments can do, what the international community can do.
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...…further undermines traditional values as new converts opt out of traditional sharing mechanisms and turn to their new ’family’ instead.50 Geertz, Geertz and Rosen (1979) and Cohen (1969) give similar examples of the role of Muslim religious authorities in enforcing cooperation among traders....
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities is surveyed, and how domestic networks influence international trade through their impact on domestic market structure.
Abstract: The first two main sections survey the roles of transnational networks in alleviating problems of contract enforcement and providing information about trading opportunities, respectively. The next section covers how domestic networks influence international trade through their impact on domestic market structure. Two overarching questions unify these sections: how do networks affect efficiency, and will networks grow or shrink in importance for international trade over time. The last main sections develop research agendas for two less studied areas: the role of intermediaries who can connect foreign agents to domestic networks and the ability of transnational production networks to facilitate technology transfer.
1,197 citations
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about race and ethnicity in the contemporary environment, with a focus on race and ethnic relations.
Abstract: Contemporary discussion about race has a tendency to set off out without first checking the rear view mirror. In Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives, in contrast, Murji and Solomos identify what has and has not been covered, and so appeal at the outset for a ‘more sustained’ account of changing research agendas of race and ethnic relations. Taken as a whole, the collection allows the editors to contemplate ‘what factors explain the mobilizing power of ideas about race and ethnicity in the contemporary environment?’ and whether indeed ‘it is the “real” rather than race that should be placed in quotation marks’. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 16 July 2015; Accepted 6 October 2015
648 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the evolution of the macro-processus de l'organisation sociale en Afrique, i.e., de la signification of certains concepts-cles comme les concepts de groupe domestique, de lignage, de famille.
Abstract: Evolution depuis une vingtaine d'annees des themes et des approches des recherches sur l'organisation sociale en Afrique. Etude detaillee de la signification de certains concepts-cles comme les concepts de groupe domestique, de lignage, de famille. Les nouvelles tendances de l'etude des macro-processus de l'organisation sociale. Revue de la litterature sur la stabilite matrimoniale et la polygynie comme exemple des possibilites de comprehension de problemes particuliers dans le contexte de processus historiques plus vastes.
417 citations
Posted Content•
TL;DR: The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like non-family firms and professionalize, concluding that despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to do so or do so only partially.
Abstract: The authors survey arguments that family firms should behave more like nonfamily firms and “professionalize.” Despite the apparent advantages of this transition, many family firms fail to do so or do so only partially. The authors reflect on why this might be so, and the range of possible modes of professionalization. They derive six ideal types: (a) minimally professional family firms; (b) wealth dispensing, private family firms; (c) entrepreneurially operated family firms; (d) entrepreneurial family business groups; (e) pseudo-professional, public family firms; and (f) hybrid professional family firms. The authors conclude with suggestions for further research that is attentive to such variation.
414 citations
Book•
19 Feb 2004
TL;DR: Risk and poverty -life and risk, risk in poor rural economics the risk coping strategies of the rural poor -reducing exposure to shocks risk sharing the limits to risk coping -the limits to self-protection, sharing and power, risk sharing and credit, information asymmetries, risk saring networks, the breakdown of the solidarity system risk and inequality -a stylized economy, no marketable assets, accumulation with no sharing, accumulation and risk sharing, imperfect commitment, risk and poverty trap risk and development -nutrition and human capital, risk-and technological innovation, commercial
Abstract: Risk and poverty - life and risk, risk in poor rural economics the risk coping strategies of the rural poor - reducing exposure to shocks risk sharing the limits to risk coping - the limits to self-protection, sharing and power, risk sharing and credit, information asymmetries, risk saring networks, the breakdown of the solidarity system risk and inequality - a stylized economy, no marketable assets, accumulation with no sharing, accumulation and risk sharing, imperfect commitment, risk and poverty trap risk and development - nutrition and human capital, risk and technological innovation, commercial crops vs. subsistence farming, precautionary saving and investment constraints, risk sharing and risk taking conclusion - what we have learned, what we do not know, what local governments can do, what the international community can do.
369 citations