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Self Help Group Literature Review

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Chapter 2: Literature review

In this chapter the reviews of some suitable literature on self help groups are documented and tried to understand their outcomes and relate them with the research objectives. This research is to study the effect of Self Help Groups on SHG member’s standard of living and study the economical and social status of SHG members within their family. This study also tries to understand the economical and social status of SHG members in the society. The Literature review is also going to discuss the impact of SHGs on the rural women to create social awareness among SHG members and to study political participation of SHG members.
2.1. Self Help Group and institutional representation of marginalized in India

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This feature in institutional representation of marginalized people is known as ‘Descriptive institutional representation of people’ and Descriptive institutional representation of people creates more accountability among the people which put a check and balance on the independent judgments and decisions of the government (Philips, 1998). In this style of institutional representation, almost all the members need to belongs to the same community and should possess the experience of same life style. It denotes some of the visible characteristics such as skin colour, language, caste, class, ethnicity or gender and more of a sharing same experience. Descriptive institutional representation of people is the best way of empowering the marginalized people such as Scheduled Tribes, Dalits, women etc. by including them in to the social, economical sand political decision making process. In this type of institutional representation, as all the members belong to the same community, represents the same community and share the same experience like discrimination etc. it can be the best way to understand the need of their own community or group’s people and all the members can work with more interest for the well being of their own community. The members have better ways and chances of communication with each other. The members have more trust on each other and will encourage themselves to participate in decision making system. The confidence of having a member of their own community in the major social, economical, cultural and political institutions and agency will

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