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High Skilled Workers, Entrepreneurs, and their Families:analysisof social and cultural change processes in Mozambique
| Resumo: | This paper examines social reproduction strategies of Mozambican families who have one or more membersin entrepreneurship activities and simultaneously one or more members with a university degree. By examining the interrelations between these different variables and units of analysis (entrepreneurs, individuals with a universitydegree and families) this paper will reflect on the dynamic processes through which families deploy their social reproduction strategies. The focus will be on factors that, on a family level, conditioned individual training and professional options and how the latter originated changes in family relationsand their structures. The author concludes her argument focusing on the complexity and non-linearaspectsof cultural and social changes in Mozambican families and how these characteristics conditionprofessional choices and entrepreneurship activities at an individual level. |
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| Autores principais: | Costa, Ana Bénard da |
| Assunto: | Empresário Família Reprodução social Rede social Moçambique |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Cadernos de Estudos Africanos |
| Resumo: | This paper examines social reproduction strategies of Mozambican families who have one or more membersin entrepreneurship activities and simultaneously one or more members with a university degree. By examining the interrelations between these different variables and units of analysis (entrepreneurs, individuals with a universitydegree and families) this paper will reflect on the dynamic processes through which families deploy their social reproduction strategies. The focus will be on factors that, on a family level, conditioned individual training and professional options and how the latter originated changes in family relationsand their structures. The author concludes her argument focusing on the complexity and non-linearaspectsof cultural and social changes in Mozambican families and how these characteristics conditionprofessional choices and entrepreneurship activities at an individual level. |
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