ABSTRACT The study of social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum in academia, in research institutions as well as in practice; however, there is a lack of sociological analysis of social entrepreneurship. This article argues that social entrepreneurship needs to be understood from a social sciences perspective. As the research has pointed out, sociological literature does not have much to say about social entrepreneurship even though social entrepreneurship is an important process through which significant social change occurs in contemporary societies. Using a South African case study, the article analyses social entrepreneurship from a sociological perspective, citing the process of establishing the community work programme (CWP) in South Africa as an illustrative case of social entrepreneurship. Such an analysis departs from a business school-type of perspective which focuses on business models, earned income and financial sustainability.

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南非作为社会创业的社区工作计划：社会学视角

摘要 社会创业的研究在学术界、研究机构和实践中都得到了发展。然而，缺乏对社会创业的社会学分析。本文认为，需要从社会科学的角度来理解社会创业。正如研究所指出的那样，尽管社会创业是当代社会发生重大社会变革的重要过程，但社会学文献对社会创业没有太多说明。本文使用南非的案例研究，从社会学的角度分析了社会创业，并引用了在南非建立社区工作计划 (CWP) 的过程作为社会创业的说明性案例。