Abstract
ABSTRACTThe 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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