Verwirklichung sozialer Gerechtigkeit in der „Krise“: Freiheit, soziale Verantwortung und öffentlicher Vernunftgebrauch im Rahmen des Capability Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 383-399
Author(s):  
Julian Molina Romero

Das Thema soziale Gerechtigkeit steht wieder ganz oben auf der politischen Agenda. Seit die Pandemie-Anfälligkeit der globalen Gesellschaft deutlich vor Augen geführt wurde, wirkt Covid-19 überall wie ein Brandbeschleuniger: Hunger, Armut, gespaltene Gesellschaften, Populismus und Autoritarismus scheinen vermehrt die Folge. Der Bedarf an Handlungsempfehlungen in der Krise ist groß. Der Capability Approach (CA) liefert für die Adressierung aktueller Gerechtigkeitsprobleme ein umfassendes und zugleich praktisches Konzept. Vielversprechend scheint insbesondere der systematische Zusammenhang von Freiheit, sozialer Verantwortung und demokratischer Praxis, der in anderen Ansätzen wie z.B. dem bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen weniger Berücksichtigung findet. Abstract: Realisation of Social Justice in the “Crisis”: Freedom, Social Responsibility and Public Use of Reason Within the Framework of the Capability Approach The issue of social justice is back at the top of the political agenda. Since the pandemic vulnerability of global society has been shown dramatically, Covid-19 has been acting like a multiplier: hunger, poverty, divided societies, populism and authoritarianism seem to be increasingly the result. The need for recommendations for action in the crisis is great. The capability approach (CA) provides a comprehensive and at the same time practical concept for addressing current problems of social justice. Especially, the systematic connection of freedom, social responsibility and democratic practice, which is not considered in other approaches such as the unconditional basic income, seems promising.

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1657-1675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen McIntyre ◽  
Nicole Smith Dahmen ◽  
Jesse Abdenour

A survey ( N = 1318) evaluated US newspaper journalists’ attitudes toward c ontextual reporting – stories that go beyond the immediacy of the news and contribute to societal well-being. Results indicated that journalists highly value professional roles associated with contextual reporting. Responses revealed new journalistic role functions, including the ‘Contextualist’, who placed high value on being socially responsible and accurately portraying the world. Analyses showed that younger journalists and female journalists highly valued three genres of contextual reporting: constructive journalism, solutions journalism, and restorative narrative. Additionally, a journalist’s belief in activist values such as setting the political agenda and pointing to possible solutions predicted more favorable views of all three forms of contextual journalism, while belief in an adversarial attitude predicted less favorable views of restorative narrative.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Francesco Laruffa ◽  
Michael McGann ◽  
Mary P. Murphy

We revise Atkinson’s concept of a ‘participation income’ (PI), repositioning it as a form of green conditional basic income that is anchored in a capabilities-oriented eco-social policy framework. This framework combines the capability approach with an ‘ethics of care’ to re-shape the focus of social policy on individuals’ capability to ‘take care of the world’, thus shifting the emphasis from economic production to social reproduction and environmental reparation. In developing this proposal, we seek to address key questions about the feasibility of implementing PI schemes: including their administrative complexity and the criticism that a PI constitutes either an arbitrary and confusing, or invasive and stigmatising, form of basic income. To address these concerns, we argue for an enabling approach to incentivising participation whereby participation pathways are co-created with citizens on the basis of opportunities they recognise as meaningful rather than enforced through strict monitoring and sanctions.


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