Book contents
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: social choice, agency, inclusiveness and capabilities
- Part I Social Choice and Capabilities
- Part II Inclusiveness, Social and Individual Agency
- 7 In defence of inclusiveness
- 8 Exploring Sen on self-interest and commitment
- 9 Incorporating an emotional dimension in the capability approach
- 10 Sufficiency re-examined
- 11 Adaptive preferences versus internalization in deprivation
- 12 Enriching agency in the capability approach through social theory contributions
- 13 Creativity and capabilities
- Part III Social Choice and Capabilities in Action
- Index
- References
11 - Adaptive preferences versus internalization in deprivation
A conceptual comparison between the capability approach and self-determination theory
from Part II - Inclusiveness, Social and Individual Agency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
Book contents
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: social choice, agency, inclusiveness and capabilities
- Part I Social Choice and Capabilities
- Part II Inclusiveness, Social and Individual Agency
- 7 In defence of inclusiveness
- 8 Exploring Sen on self-interest and commitment
- 9 Incorporating an emotional dimension in the capability approach
- 10 Sufficiency re-examined
- 11 Adaptive preferences versus internalization in deprivation
- 12 Enriching agency in the capability approach through social theory contributions
- 13 Creativity and capabilities
- Part III Social Choice and Capabilities in Action
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter provides a conceptual exploration about the validity of people’s subjectivity in policy making. Featuring the capability approach in development and self-determination theory in psychology, it examines a fundamental question: whether full internalization can be made in externally deprived conditions, as the capability approach assumes, or whether it cannot, as self-determination theory assumes. For this investigation, this chapter (1) makes a comparative analysis between central capabilities in the capability approach and the basic psychological needs in self-determination theory to confirm the similarity in needs requirement; (2) examines the type of goods required for the need satisfaction and the way of assessing them in both approaches; and (3) discusses the feasibility of justice in internalization vis-à-vis adaptive preferences.
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