Jackson, William Anthony orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-7307 (2016) Capabilities, culture and social structure. In: Dolfsma, W., Figart, D.M., McMaster, R., Mutari, E. and White, M.D., (eds.) Social Economics. Critical Concepts in Economics . Routledge , London
Abstract
Sen's capability approach has a culturally specific side, with capabilities influenced by social structures and institutions. Although Sen acknowledges this, he expresses his theory in individualistic terms and makes little allowance for culture or social structure. The present paper draws from recent social theory to discuss how the capability approach could be developed to give an explicit treatment of cultural and structural matters. Capabilities depend not only on entitlements but on institutional roles and personal relations: these can be represented openly if capabilities are disaggregated into individual, social and structural capacities. The three layers interact, and a full analysis of capabilities should consider them all. A stratified method implies that raising entitlements will not on its own be enough to enhance capabilities and that cultural and structural changes will be needed.
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Keywords: | capability approach,culture,social structure,human agency,social policy |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2017 08:00 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | Critical Concepts in Economics |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114625 |
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