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Furthering Social Justice for Disabled People. A Framework Based on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach

Furthering Social Justice for Disabled People. A Framework Based on Amartya Sen’s Capability... AbstractUnderstanding disability as a social phenomenon opened up the way for disability studies and social justice theories to mutually benefit from each other. One of the most significant recent advancements in the field of social justice has been the capability approach (CA) of Amartya Sen. The present paper builds on the CA to analyse disability form a social justice perspective. We argue that the CA provides several advantages when conceptualizing disability and furthering justice for disabled people. The objective of the paper is to develop a framework for analysis on the basis of the CA and to apply it through the case of D/deaf and hardof- hearing children and their carers in Szeged, Hungary. We demonstrate that the advancement of justice occurs through the scrutiny and comparison of feasible alternatives instead of arguing for principles or institutional guarantees of perfectly just societies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia de Gruyter

Furthering Social Justice for Disabled People. A Framework Based on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Zoltán Bajmócy et al., published by Sciendo
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2066-0464
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10.2478/subbs-2022-0003
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Abstract

AbstractUnderstanding disability as a social phenomenon opened up the way for disability studies and social justice theories to mutually benefit from each other. One of the most significant recent advancements in the field of social justice has been the capability approach (CA) of Amartya Sen. The present paper builds on the CA to analyse disability form a social justice perspective. We argue that the CA provides several advantages when conceptualizing disability and furthering justice for disabled people. The objective of the paper is to develop a framework for analysis on the basis of the CA and to apply it through the case of D/deaf and hardof- hearing children and their carers in Szeged, Hungary. We demonstrate that the advancement of justice occurs through the scrutiny and comparison of feasible alternatives instead of arguing for principles or institutional guarantees of perfectly just societies.

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Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia – de Gruyter

Published: Jun 1, 2022

Keywords: disability; social justice; capability approach; D/deaf and hard-of-hearing

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