Institutional structuralism as a process to achieve social development: Aymara women's community project based on the working with people model in peru

Abstract

Institutional Structuralism draws on different social and economic institutions and seeks to mobilize them through an approach known as “managed pluralism” (Midgley, 2013). It also works as a process to promote social development for everyone. The state should usually play a key role in this process, although this is not always the case. This article analyzes a process which has been ongoing since 2007 promoted by a university institution with the Aymara Women’s Community in Peru to harmonize social welfare with economic development; taking into account the Working with People model through its three components: ethical-social, political-contextual and technical-entrepre-neurial. The results show new tools for developing the institutional structuralism process through a bottom-up methodology which enables social development to be achieved.