Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	Sociological theory and the Capability Approach (CA)
	A very brief overview of CA
	Some limitations of sociological theory
	Plan of the book
	Notes
	References
Part I: Values, economy and society
	Chapter 1: Valuing values in sociology and the Capability Approach
		Methodological preamble
		Weber, Scheler and the collective validity of values
		CA in the context of sociological value-theo
		A Durkheimian rejoinder
		‘Valuing values’ in CA
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2: Economy and society: A CA-based synthesis?
		Entering economic suffering
		Economy and society (I): from embeddedness to vocabularies of motives
		Economy and society (II): a heuristic typology
		Liberalism and socialism (I): the CA ‘Adam Smith–Karl Marx’ dialogue
		Liberalism and socialism (II): CA and Hegel
		Liberalism and socialism (III): contemporary attempts at synthesis
		Pragmatic codas
		Concluding remark
		Notes
		References
Part II: Agency, alienation and emotions
	Chapter 3: From agency to capabilities: The capable social self
		Preliminary remarks: CA and agency
		Capabilities: a new framework for normative action?
		Natural law, human agency, and CA
		Excursus on human rights
		From capacity to capability (I): Parsons and Sen
		From capacity to capability (II): Giddens’ wanting normativity
		Enriching agency
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 4: From alienation to capability deprivation: Reconstructing asociological concept
		Why alienation? Some conceptual limitations
		Why CA? Elements of a new research programme for alienation
		Decompressing alienation: the essentialist (re)turn in CA
		Excursus on alienation without essentialism: a critique
		Alienation from what? Deprivation from what?
		Reconstructing alienation as capability deprivation: ‘back’ to value-formation!
	Chapter 5: The Capability Approach and the sociology of emotions
		Emotions, suffering and the fragility of the social self
		‘Capable’ emotions and the good society (I): the politics of emotions
		Negative emotions unbound (I): disgust and shame
		Negative emotions unbound (II): envy and ressentiment
		‘Capable’ emotions and the good society (II): empathy or sympathy?
		The social self and cultural problems of identity
		Notes
		References
Part III: IIIInstitutions, modernity and fundamentalism
	Chapter 6: ‘Capable institutions’? Rebuilding social ethics
		The shift to ‘capable’ institutions
		CA, institutions and pluralism
		Rethinking social ethics: CA and Parsons
		The challenge of Luhmann’s systems theory
		Axel Honneth and the sociological theory of justice
		Deliberative democracy and CA
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7: The crisis of capability? Value-fundamentalism andsolitarist identity
		Introduction: decline – again?
		Cultural identity and cultural illusions: how CA responds
		What is fundamentalism? A sociological explanation
		Sen’s comparative broadening and the sociological problem of parallax or of blind spot
		Values, globalization and Ausgleich
		Notes
		References
	Epilogue
	Index