SE200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Entrepreneurship, User Friendly, Bourgeoisie
Document Summary
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society"s most pressing social problems by offering new ideas for wide-scale change. Social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to move in different directions. Present user-friendly, understandable, and ethical ideas that engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of citizens that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement it. Critical questions: individual purpose and the social entrepreneur"s. Social entrepreneurship places a significant amount of value on the driving motivation or purpose of individuals intrinsic desire to help others is the primary characteristic that distinguishes the social entrepreneur from the business entrepreneur. Entrepreneur" emerged in french economic discourse during the 19th century as part of an effort to make a clear distinction between owners of capital (the bourgeoisie) and active agents of the production and circulation of goods.
