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    STUDIA SOCIOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2022  
         
  Article:   FURTHERING SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE. A FRAMEWORK BASED ON AMARTYA SEN’S CAPABILITY APPROACH.

Authors:  ZOLTÁN BAJMÓCY, BARBARA MIHÓK, JUDIT GÉBERT.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  DOI: 10.2478/subbs-2022-0003

Article history: Received 9 April 2022; Revised 12 May 2022; Accepted 1 June 2022; Available online 10 August 2022; Available print 30 September 2022

pp. 69-84

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Abstract: Understanding disability as a social phenomenon opened up the way for disability studies and social justice theories to mutually benefit from each other. One of the most significant recent advancements in the field of social justice has been the capability approach (CA) of Amartya Sen. The present paper builds on the CA to analyse disability form a social justice perspective. We argue that the CA provides several advantages when conceptualizing disability and furthering justice for disabled people. The objective of the paper is to develop a framework for analysis on the basis of the CA and to apply it through the case of D/deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their carers in Szeged, Hungary. We demonstrate that the advancement of justice occurs through the scrutiny and comparison of feasible alternatives instead of arguing for principles or institutional guarantees of perfectly just societies.

Keywords: disability, social justice, capability approach, D/deaf and hard-of-hearing
 
         
     
         
         
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