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ISBN: 978-3-8474-0077-6

Enhancing Capabilities

The Role of Social Institutions

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Erscheinungsdatum : 30.01.2013

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ISBN: 978-3-8474-0077-6

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The volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people’s freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The contributions analyze what social institutions – in particular in the field of education and welfare – may provide in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people.

 

The capabilities approach to social justice does not primarily outline a transcendental philosophical theory of justice but rather a perspective which opens up a conceptual foundation for empirical social research in real life situations. Focussing on the freedoms to achieve actual livings that individuals can have reason to value, the capabilities approach promises to be a fruitful perspective for developing and justifying evaluative metrics for assessing welfare and educational policies. While the potentials and limits of the capabilities approach have been intensively discussed on general and conceptual levels, the role of organizations and institutions for enhancing capabilities is still a blind spot. As inequalities of capabilities are not merely macro-structural phenomena but also located in different institutional forms at various scales, this volume aims at analyzing the complex and often ambivalent role of institutions and policies in promoting or impeding the life prospects of individuals.

 

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The Editors:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Uwe Otto
Prof. Dr. Holger Ziegler
both: University Bielefeld, Germany

 

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Target Groups: academics and professionals in education, social development, welfare and labor market policy, poverty research and social work

Keywords: Education, Pedagogy, Social Work, social justice, institutions
Departments: Education, Pedagogy, Sociology, Social Work

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A5

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Year of publication

2013

Date of publication

30.01.2013

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1.

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Englisch

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The volume suggests a capability perspective for evaluating welfare and educational policies. Capabilities are conceptualized as people’s freedom to choose and conduct a life they have reason to value. The contributions analyze what social institutions – in particular in the field of education and welfare – may provide in order to enhance capabilities in particular for most vulnerable people.

 

The capabilities approach to social justice does not primarily outline a transcendental philosophical theory of justice but rather a perspective which opens up a conceptual foundation for empirical social research in real life situations. Focussing on the freedoms to achieve actual livings that individuals can have reason to value, the capabilities approach promises to be a fruitful perspective for developing and justifying evaluative metrics for assessing welfare and educational policies. While the potentials and limits of the capabilities approach have been intensively discussed on general and conceptual levels, the role of organizations and institutions for enhancing capabilities is still a blind spot. As inequalities of capabilities are not merely macro-structural phenomena but also located in different institutional forms at various scales, this volume aims at analyzing the complex and often ambivalent role of institutions and policies in promoting or impeding the life prospects of individuals.

 

View table of contents.

 

The Editors:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Uwe Otto
Prof. Dr. Holger Ziegler
both: University Bielefeld, Germany

 

Download for free: publicity leaflet (pdf)

 

Target Groups: academics and professionals in education, social development, welfare and labor market policy, poverty research and social work

Keywords: Education, Pedagogy, Social Work, social justice, institutions
Departments: Education, Pedagogy, Sociology, Social Work

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Year of publication

2013

Date of publication

30.01.2013

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1.

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Englisch

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