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Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach

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Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach

dc.contributor.author	Esparcia Pérez, Javier
dc.contributor.author	Serrano, J. Javier
dc.date.accessioned	2019-07-18T07:26:39Z
dc.date.available	2019-07-18T07:26:39Z
dc.date.issued	2016	es_ES
dc.identifier.citation	Javier Esparcia, J. Javier Serrano Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach. International Review of Social Research 2016; 6(4): 206–220. De Gruyter ed.	es_ES
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10550/70870
dc.description.abstract	Gender issues are of growing importance in the European and Spanish rural areas. The literature reflects that women have traditionally been linked to marginal positions in economic life, social activities and even political representation at the local level. Local development programs that have been implemented in Europe’s rural areas have had among its objectives the improvement of the articulation of local communities. To reach them, it has been fostered, among others, a gender perspective, promoting both productive activities led by women and their participation as stakeholders in the management and decision-making structures of such programmes. In this paper, we addressed this latter issue. The study focuses on a sample of 30 relevant social actors linked to the implementation of a rural development programme in the county of Rincón de Ademuz (Valencia, Spain) from the mid-1990s to recent date. Through Social Network Analysis, gender differences and women’s roles within the social network are studied in two differentiated periods. This analysis reveals that despite women representing a minority among the relevant stakeholders, their level of participation, prestige, position in the network, and frequency of relationships, among other indicators, are comparable with respect to those sustained by men. Therefore, it cannot be said, as reflected in some of the literature, that women tend to occupy marginal positions in the structure of social relations of local development programs.	es_ES
dc.description.abstract	Gender issues are of growing importance in the European and Spanish rural areas. The literature reflects that women have traditionally been linked to marginal positions in economic life, social activities and even political representation at the local level. Local development programs that have been implemented in Europe’s rural areas have had among its objectives the improvement of the articulation of local communities. To reach them, it has been fostered, among others, a gender perspective, promoting both productive activities led by women and their participation as stakeholders in the management and decision-making structures of such programmes. In this paper, we addressed this latter issue. The study focuses on a sample of 30 relevant social actors linked to the implementation of a rural development programme in the county of Rincón de Ademuz (Valencia, Spain) from the mid-1990s to recent date. Through Social Network Analysis, gender differences and women’s roles within the social network are studied in two differentiated periods. This analysis reveals that despite women representing a minority among the relevant stakeholders, their level of participation, prestige, position in the network, and frequency of relationships, among other indicators, are comparable with respect to those sustained by men. Therefore, it cannot be said, as reflected in some of the literature, that women tend to occupy marginal positions in the structure of social relations of local development programs.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	es_ES
dc.subject	social network analysis	es_ES
dc.subject	rural development	es_ES
dc.subject	rural women	es_ES
dc.subject	gender perspective	es_ES
dc.subject	county of rincón ademuz	es_ES
dc.subject	valencia	es_ES
dc.subject	spain	es_ES
dc.title	Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach	es_ES
dc.type	journal article	es_ES
dc.subject.unesco	UNESCO::SOCIOLOGÍA	es_ES
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/irsr-2016-0023	es_ES
dc.identifier.idgrec	119453	es_ES