Too Soft for Economics, Too Rigid for Sociology, or Just Right? The Productive Ambiguities of Sen's Capability Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4180180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milena I Kremakova, Milena Kremakova (0000-0003-2337-3486, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-419 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975613000210 |
| OpenAlex | W2018494176 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 73 |
The capability approach has been developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum and others as a human-centred normative framework for the evaluation of individual and group well-being, quality of life and social justice. Sen and Nussbaum's ideas have influenced global, national and local policy and have been further developed in a number of academic disciplines, but so far have remained largely unnoticed in sociology. This article examines recent capability-informed theories and empirical applications in the sociology of human rights and other academic fields adjacent to sociology, focussing on examples of social policy studies in the fields of welfare, the labour market, health and disability, and education. The article outlines several potential areas in which capability-informed frameworks are relevant for critical social theory, public sociology and global sociology
Capability approach · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Positive economics · Public sociology · Social policy · Social science · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Researching the capabilities of people with disabilities
The agency of fertility plans
Amartya Sen as a social and political theorist – on personhood, democracy, and ‘description as choice’
Exploring public transport as an element of older persons' mobility
Il lavoro dopo il Novecento
Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Collectivity and the capability approach
Poverty as Capability Deprivation
Deliberative democracy in the real world, the contribution of the capability approach
Modeling, Statistics and Political Circumstances
From Knowledge to Informational Basis
Mediating Agency and Structure in Sociology
Agency as conversion process
Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach
Capability and Well-Being
The Capability Approach
The Quality of Life
The Capabilities Approach and Gendered Education
Freedom of choice
Capability and Well‐Being
Commodities and capabilities
Incorporating the capability approach into social and employment policies
Is Pogge a Capability Theorist in Disguise?
Well-Being, Agency and Freedom
Beyond the social contract
Women, Culture, and Development
Europe and the Politics of Capabilities
La liberté au prisme des capacités
Bibliography on the Capability Approach, 2006–2007
Being Human
Armut und Reichtum an Verwirklichungschancen
Symposium on Amartya Sen's philosophy
Development as Freedom
Poverty and Famines
Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education
An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach
A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty
Valuing Freedoms
Can the Capability Approach Be Justified
Poor, Relatively Speaking
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach
A Sociological Approach to the Measurement of Poverty—a Rejoinder to Professor Amartya Sen
For Public Sociology
For Public Sociology
Developing capabilities and rights in welfare-to-work policies
Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality
Exploring the Challenges of Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas
Slavery, Freedom, and Sen
Development as Empowerment
Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements
Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason
The Capability Approach and Disability
Public services in Erfurt and Frankfurt am Main compared ( c . 1890–1914)
The Capability Approach in Practice
Comparing Welfare States
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach to Education
Critiquing capabilities
The capabilities approach and critical social policy
The promotion of capabilities in Sweden
Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine
Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
Being Human
Health Capability
A New Approach to Consumer Theory
Unemployment Revisited in Comparative Perspective
What Informational Basis for Assessing Job-Seekers
Capabilities, Contributive Injustice and Unequal Divisions of Labour
Open the social sciences
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Justice and the Environment in Nussbaum's “Capabilities Approach
Europe and the Politics of Capabilities
Women and Human Development
The Capability Approach
Social Theory and Social Structure
The Idea of Justice
The capability approach and the politics of a social conception of wellbeing
Pragmatism and the Capability Approach
Public Reasoning without Sociology
Human Rights and Ethical Reasoning
The seductive quality of central human capabilities
| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |