The Relational Ontology of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach: Incorporating Social and Individual Causes

摘要: Abstract While Sen has written extensively on the social factors of capabilities, exact nature these and how they interact to form influence capabilities is contested unclear. Consequently, coherently integrate components into capability research remains a concern for those attempting put approach practical use. This paper proposes one understanding integrating capabilities. Building upon two recent contributions by Martins, we argue that underpinning Sen’s notion an ontological conception relational society. In this perspective, individual’s emerge from combination interaction individual‐level capacities relative position vis‐a‐vis structures provide reasons resources particular behaviors. Crucially, society predicated contextual causality flexible enough incorpora...