Distinguishing Disadvantage from Ill-Being in the Capability Approach

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

The disadvantage of being fat.

The Capability Approach and Well - Being Measurement for Public Policy

This chapter presents Sen’s capability approach as a framework for well-being measurement with powerful and ongoing relevance to current work on measuring well-being in order to guide public policy. It discusses how preferences and values inform the relative weights across capabilities, then draws readers’ attention to measurement properties of multidimensional measures that have proven to be p...

Subjective Well-being Capabilities: Bridging the Gap between the Capability Approach and Subjective Well-Being Research

As a result of the disenchantment with traditional income-based measures of welfare, alternative welfare measures have gained increasing attention in recent years. Two of the most prominent measures of well-being come from subjective well-being research and the (objective) capability approach. Despite their promising features, both approaches have a number of weaknesses when considered on their...

Being Mentally Ill

Incorporating sociological theory into that of psychiatric illness is particularly difficult. It also goes against the grain for psychiatrists who were trained as doctors and had their attention focused on individual differences, rather than on the social system in which the patient is involved. Society, too, in its management of the mentally ill, accepts the individual disease model.