Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367726690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str.

Spiros Gangas

Opis

Sociological Theory and Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Values, Economy and Society  1. Valuing Values in Sociology and the Capability Approach  2. Economy and Society: A CA-based synthesis?  Part 2: Agency, Alienation and Emotions  3. From Agency to Capabilities: The Capable Social Self  4. From Alienation to Capability Deprivation: Reconstructing a Sociological Concept  5. The Capability Approach and the Sociology of Emotions  Part 3: Institutions, Modernity and Fundamentalism  6. ‘Capable Institutions’? Rebuilding Social Ethics  7. The Crisis of Capability? Value-Fundamentalism and Solitarist Identity  Epilogue

O autorze

Spiros Gangas is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Deree-the American College of Greece. His principal areas of research are classical and contemporary sociological theory, value theory, capability approach and film studies.