Formal inter-community delegation outpaces informal social diffusion of norms

Evidence

Its principal contribution is the operational concept of “organized diffusion of innovation” — the structured inter-community delegation approach in which communities that have made collective abandonment declarations send formal delegations to intermarrying neighbors, creating a network of credible collective commitments that disrupts the old equilibrium. The paper distinguishes this from ordinary diffusion through informal social contact, which is too slow and too easily reversed to produce the cascade observed in the Tostan data. — , The Rod and the Child, 10753

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘organized diffusion of innovation’ as a distinct mechanism separate from ordinary informal diffusion.
• XREF: connects to: Community social capital substitutes for missing family social capital. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 200; Social transformation depends on care networks plus formal mobilization structures — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 443

Related

• Social transformation depends on care networks plus formal mobilization structures (similarity 0.78)