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Stratification Economics And Identity Economics, John B. Davis
Stratification Economics And Identity Economics, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
Stratification economics represents an important new approach devoted to explaining economic inequality in terms of how social groups are separated or stratified along economic lines. This paper combines stratification economics with identity economics to address complications that the phenomenon of intersectionality – people having multiple social group identities – creates for stratification economics. It distinguishes two types of social identities recognized by social psychologists, categorical and relational social identities, and uses this distinction to explain how individuals’ personal identities, understood as ordered sets of social identities, can be seen to be both socially and self-constructed. Individuals order and rank their …
Agency And The Process Aspect Of Capability Development: Individual Capabilities, Collective Capabilities, And Collective Intentions, John B. Davis
Agency And The Process Aspect Of Capability Development: Individual Capabilities, Collective Capabilities, And Collective Intentions, John B. Davis
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
This paper addresses the process aspect of capability development in connection with the debate in the capability approach over the relationship between individual and collective capabilities by combining Sen’s ‘privateness’ interpretation of different aspects of the self and Granovetter’s social embeddedness framework. It interprets Sen’s commitment aspect of the self in collective intentionality terms, uses this to explain his view of ‘identification with’ social groups, and then uses social identity theory’s distinction between relational and categorical social group identities to explain a general relationship between individual and collective capabilities. The paper applies this analysis to three broad domains of social …