What is Socioeconomics? An Overview of Theories, Methods, and Themes in the Field

Hellmich, Simon Niklas

doi:10.1080/07360932.2014.999696

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“…Therefore, socioeconomic refers to societal and economic factors. It is a broad term used to describe the social and economic standing of individual in the society (Hellmich, 2015;Mark 2009). Socioeconomic covers a variety of ways that explains individual work experience, household, as well as access to basic needs and resources (Davis and Dolfsma, 2008;Heath, Martin and Beerten, 2003).…”

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“…Socioeconomic covers a variety of ways that explains individual work experience, household, as well as access to basic needs and resources (Davis and Dolfsma, 2008;Heath, Martin and Beerten, 2003). While various indices may be applied in determining socioeconomic condition of the individual, major indicator includes occupation, income and education (Darin-Mattsson, Fors and Kåreholt, 2017;Hellmich, 2015). Darin-Mattsson, et al (2017) further maintains that these major indicators (occupation, income and education) affect the other, in the sense that, individual's type of occupation largely corresponds to their income which in turns determines their level of education.…”

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Assessment of Government Response to Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Awofeso¹,

Irabor²

2020

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Since the Nigerian economy is largely dominated by informal workers, the preventive measures (lockdown, movement restriction, social distancing and interstate travel ban) occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic will affect socioeconomic livelihood in Nigeria. Relying on secondary sources, this study examines socioeconomic challenges of Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria, analyses and evaluates government response to curbing its effect on livelihood in Nigeria. Results from the study find bearings between Covid-19 pandemic and low socioeconomic livelihood in Nigeria. Palliative measures introduced by the government to minimize the effect of Covid-19 pandemic are largely ineffective owing to poor coordination, human right violations as well as inadequate fiscal policy. Recommendations from the study draws on the need for the government to diversify the economy by promoting the informal and agricultural sectors, facilitate infrastructural development and improve health facilities, to avoid economic recession of post Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

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2020

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“…generating jobs regardless of how 1 Readers interested in the detailed differences such as the politics, histories, and methodologies of social economists are directed to Simon niklas Hellmich's (2015) many or the quality of the jobs). The second, (b), determines success/failure by relating outcomes to the quantum of resources transferred into private control.…”

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Marketising the commons in Africa: the case of Ghana

Obeng‐Odoom

2016

Review of Social Economy

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The recent surge in the marketisation of the commons in Africa -especially of water bodies -warrants careful political economic analysis. Three questions remain intractable: (1) Were there markets in the beginning? If so, how have they transformed and if not, how did markets arise and transform over the years? (2) what are the outcomes of such markets for people, their livelihoods, and their environment? And (3) how to interpret the outcomes of water markets and whether water should be commodified at all. For new institutional economists, water markets have arisen because of the inferior nature of Indigenous or customary systems which are incapable of offering precisely what water markets offer Africa: economic and ecological fortunes. Using an institutional political economy approach and drawing on experiences in Ghana, the paper investigates the social history of marketisation of the commons and probes the effects of marketisation in terms of absolute, relative, and differential/congruent outcomes as well as the opportunity cost of the current water property rights regime. The empirical evidence shows that markets have been socially created through imposed and directed policies. Some jobs have been created through investment, but such employment is not unique to marketisation and private investment. Indeed, the private model of property rights has worsened the distribution of water resources not only within different property relations in Africa but also between diverse property relations. Water markets have been responsible for much displacement and trouble not only for communities but also nature. Overall, there is no necessary congruence between the promises made by new institutional economists and how communities experience water markets. Tighter regulations for the use of inland and transboundary water sources might temporarily halt the displacement of communities sparked by marketisation of the commons, but only one fundamental change can guarantee community well-being: to regard the access to and community control of water as constitutionally sanctioned human rights and as res communis.

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“…What follows is based on the history‐friendly strands represented by economists Freeman and Louçã, As time goes by , pp. 120–35, and surveyed by sociologist Hellmich, ‘What is socioeconomics?’, pp. 16–17, respectively.…”

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Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90

Collantes

2018

The Economic History Review

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The rise of a mass, agri‐industrial diet after the Second World War was crucial for the culmination of the nutritional transition that western countries had been involved in since the second half of the nineteenth century—but why did the industrial diet triumph? This article takes the massification of dairy consumption in Spain 1965–90 as a study case. Using a newly constructed database and qualitative material within an evolutionary socio‐economic framework, the article reaches two conclusions. First, the massification of dairy consumption was linked to most households’ transition to a softer budget constraint, which was driven mainly by increasing household incomes (and only secondarily by consumer price reductions caused by food industrialization). Second, the reason why the softening of the budget constraint played such a major role was that it was joined by a substantial increase in consumer trust in dairy products, which in turn resulted from industrial standardization. The article is in line with recent work that underlines the dietary change brought about by food industrialization, but questions whether the latter's major contribution was of a quantitative, price‐related nature and suggests that more attention should be paid to the qualitative, preferences‐related dimension.

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What is Socioeconomics? An Overview of Theories, Methods, and Themes in the Field

Cited by 29 publications

References 50 publications

Assessment of Government Response to Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Assessment of Government Response to Socioeconomic Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Marketising the commons in Africa: the case of Ghana

Why did the industrial diet triumph? The massification of dairy consumption in Spain, 1965–90

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