The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
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DOI：
10.1177/1368431010382762
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
McGregor, J. Allister
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作者：
Deneulin, Severine;McGregor, J. Allister
能力理论对社会理论作出了重大贡献，但由于对意义的社会建构处理不足，其潜力被削弱。社会意义使人们能够对自己将要做什么和成为什么样的人做出价值判断，并评估他们对自己能够实现的目标的满意程度。从这个角度来看，一个人的幸福状态必须被理解为在特定的社会和文化背景下在社会和心理上共同构成。在这种情况下，“生活得好”的目标是森的能力方法版本的核心，这是不充分的，必须修改为“共同生活得好”的目标，其中包括考虑使人们能够追求个人自由的社会结构和制度。通过更多地考虑政策决策过程的政治经济学以及权力冲突和分配的制度化方式，可以进一步加强能力方法的政策意义。
The capability approach constitutes a significant contribution to social theory but its potential is diminished by its insufficient treatment of the social construction of meaning. Social meanings enable people to make value judgements about what they will do and be, and also to evaluate how satisfied they are about what they are able to achieve. From this viewpoint, a person's state of wellbeing must be understood as being socially and psychologically co-constituted in specific social and cultural contexts. In this light, the telos of 'living well' which is at the heart of Sen's version of the capability approach is inadequate and must be modified to a telos of 'living well together' which includes consideration of the social structures and institutions which enable people to pursue individual freedoms in relation to others. The policy significance of the capability approach can be further strengthened by paying greater consideration to the political economy of policy decision-making processes and the ways in which conflicts and distributions of power are institutionalized.