Development as Empowerment

نویسنده

  • Marianne T. Hill
چکیده

Amartya Sen’s capability approach to human welfare recognizes the impact of social institutions on human capabilities. But as an evaluative framework, it does not analyze the role of institutionalized power in causing or perpetuating inequalities in individual opportunities to achieve. Drawing on authors who are receptive to the capability approach and who have examined the political aspects of advancing human capabilities, this paper presents a view of social power and its exercise that is congruent with the capability approach. This examination of power continues the exploration of intergroup relationships that Sen has advocated, and it can be expected to yield new criteria for policy evaluation as well as new policy options.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Television and human development; providing a background model

Every human being is as a capacity that its actuality cannot be realized except through individual empowerment. One of the main methods of individual empowerment is poverty reduction, which is influenced by various institutions such as the mass media. Among the mass media, the special features of television have extended the capacity of the media to some extent that proposed it as a factor in h...

متن کامل

SWOT Analysis of Strategies for Agricultural Entrepreneurs Empowerment

The purpose of this study was to identify strategies for Agricultural Entrepreneurs Empowerment in Javanrod, Salasebabajani, Ravansar and Paveh counties of Kermanshah Province. The structural impact obtained was based on different qualitative techniques and was analysed based on the SWOT model. The finding suggested that the most effective strengths were: adoption of social responsibilities inc...

متن کامل

Iranian Agricultural Academic Staff’s Organizational Culture and their Psychological Empowerment

Faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing productivity and optimum use of their individual and group abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. Organizational culture is the main component of decision making in universities and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). Given the impo...

متن کامل

Impact of Rewards and Recognition and Empowerment on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors among Technical Engineers

In the present scenario each and every industrial organization is surrounded by an unbrokenable mount known as competition. To subdue this arduous mount, organizations have to encourage the citizenship behavior among employees which enhance the success and effectiveness of an organization, because employees are often viewed as invaluable assets of organizations. As an evident of this, earlier s...

متن کامل

The Multi-dimensionality of Development and Gender Empowerment: Women’s Decision- Making and Mobility in India

The relationship between development and gender empowerment remains unclear, especially in low-income societies where economic growth has not brought about any noticeable change in gender relations. We argue that this is largely due to the multidimensional nature of both concepts so that different aspects of development may have quite different relationships with different aspects of empowermen...

متن کامل

Women’s Empowerment: What Works?

With radical roots in the 1980s, women’s empowerment is now a mainstream development concern. Much of the narrative focuses on instrumental gains—what women can do for development rather than what development can do for women. Empowerment is treated as a destination reached through development’s equivalent of motorways: programmes rolled out over any terrain. But in the process, pathways women ...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003