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Distinguish vulnerability and capacities.

Distinguish vulnerability and capacities.

Social Psychology (10th Edition)
Social Psychology (10th Edition)
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ISBN:9780134641287
Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers
Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers
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Distinguish vulnerability and capacities.

(b) Distinguishing between vulnerability and capacities A second issue of operational relevance concerms the important distinction between vulnerability and capacity/capability. In arguing that 'development is a process through which people's physical/material, social/organizational and motivational/attitudinal vulnerabilities (or capacities) are reduced or increased', Anderson and Woodrow (1989,12) were concerned to encourage relief workers that people were not 'helpless victims' but had many resources even at times of emergency, and that these should form the basis of recovery (Longhurst, 1994, 19). Economic stress and decline can intensify adversity as much as sudden shocks or disasters. In this case the capabilities of individuals and households are deeply influenced by factors ranging from the prospects of earning a living, to the social and psychological effects of deprivation and exclusion. These include people's basic needs, employment at reasonable wages and health and education facilities (Streeten et al 1981). However, they can also include the socially generated sense of helplessness that often accompanies economic crisis - what Sen (1985) in his discussion of human capabilities calls the 'politics of hope and despair' - with its associated crime rates (Bardhan 1996).
Transcribed Image Text:(b) Distinguishing between vulnerability and capacities A second issue of operational relevance concerms the important distinction between vulnerability and capacity/capability. In arguing that 'development is a process through which people's physical/material, social/organizational and motivational/attitudinal vulnerabilities (or capacities) are reduced or increased', Anderson and Woodrow (1989,12) were concerned to encourage relief workers that people were not 'helpless victims' but had many resources even at times of emergency, and that these should form the basis of recovery (Longhurst, 1994, 19). Economic stress and decline can intensify adversity as much as sudden shocks or disasters. In this case the capabilities of individuals and households are deeply influenced by factors ranging from the prospects of earning a living, to the social and psychological effects of deprivation and exclusion. These include people's basic needs, employment at reasonable wages and health and education facilities (Streeten et al 1981). However, they can also include the socially generated sense of helplessness that often accompanies economic crisis - what Sen (1985) in his discussion of human capabilities calls the 'politics of hope and despair' - with its associated crime rates (Bardhan 1996).
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