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  • Capability-Promoting Policies

    Enhancing Individual and Social Development

    How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development be fostered in practice? These are some of the important questions asked in this volume through analysis of existing policies and conceptualisations of coherent and ... Leer más

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  • The Ethics and Economics of the Capability Approach

    de Reiko Gotoh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book inquires into the Capability Approach, a value theory of freedom, which crystalizes the interests of Marx, Welfare Economics, Social Choice, and Ethics. The capability approach has attracted many people as a promising interdisciplinary approach to human well-being and social worlds, finely overarching ethical and economic concerns. It has well challenged essential characteristics of ... Leer más

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  • Against Injustice

    The New Economics of Amartya Sen

    Edición de Reiko Gotoh, Paul Dumouchel ...
    Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit ... Leer más

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  • Dignity, Freedom and Justice

    Edición de Reiko Gotoh ...
    This is an open access book.Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The purpose of this book is to transform this phenomenal fact into a hopeful norm. As a clue, the book examines the concept of dignity and looks forward to a new definition.So far, the concept of dignity has been peripheral to the concerns of liberal social sciences. This book uses ... Leer más

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Leer más

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  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Leer más

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  • Sociological Theory – A Contemporary View: How to Read, Criticize and Do Theory

    A pithy and clear guide to the process of creating and evaluating theory in the social sciences. Using a simple model of theory creation and assessment--and applying it in depth to foundational and still-relevant social and economic theorists such as Durkheim, Marx and Parsons--Neil Smelser shows the way to a better understanding of what social theory is supposed to accomplish and how it can be ... Leer más

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  • The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

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  • Contemporary Sociological Theory

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  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Leer más

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  • Power

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    Since its publication in 1974, Power has consolidated its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within social and political theory by assessing the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power.New to the Revelations series, this revised edition presents a brand new introduction by Steven Lukes on the nature of the power debate in the world today. It includes the ... Leer más

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