Disadvantage
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 April 2007
- ISBN 9780199278268
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 240x163x18 mm
- Weight 523 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book combines a philosophical analysis of the idea of disadvantage with practical proposals for moving society in the direction of equality, by 'declustering disadvantage'. The analysis of the book will interest political philosophers, social policy theorists, and practitioners involved in the design and delivery of actual social policy.
MoreLong description:
What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with broad empirical studies, including interviews conducted for the purpose of this book, Wolff and de-Shalit show how taking theory and practice together is essential if the theory is to be rich enough to be applied to the real world, and policy systematic enough to have purpose and justification.
The book is in three parts. Part 1 presents a pluralist analysis of disadvantage, modifying the capability theory of Sen and Nussbaum to produce the 'genuine opportunity for secure functioning' view. This emphasises risk and insecurity as a central component of disadvantage. Part 2 shows how to identify the least advantaged in society even on a pluralist view. The authors suggest that disadvantage 'clusters' in the sense that some people are disadvantaged in several different respects. Thus identifying the least advantaged is not as problematic as it appears to be. Conversely, a society which has 'declustered disadvantaged' - in the sense that no group lacks secure functioning on a range of functionings - has made considerable progress in the direction of equality. Part 3 explores how to decluster disadvantage, by paying special attention to 'corrosive disadvantages' - those disadvantages which cause further disadvantages - and 'fertile functionings' - those which are likely to secure other functionings.
In sum this books presents a refreshing new analysis of disadvantage, and puts forward proposals to help governments improve the lives of the least advantaged in their societies, thereby moving in the direction of equality.
A book for those who ask what we should do about the gross injustices that face us here and now
Table of Contents:
Part 1: The secure functionings approach
The pluralism of disadvantage
Functionings
Risk
Opportunity and responsibility
Part 2: Applying theory to practice
The indexing problem
Measuring functionings
Clustering of disadvantage and empirical research
Part 3: Public policy
Declustering disadvantage
Priority to the least advantaged
Addressing disadvantage while respecting people
Appendix 1: Details of the interviews
Index
