Capabilites Approach Quiz
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What does the capabilities approach analyze in terms of?

  • Quality of life and happiness
  • Functioning and capability (correct)
  • Wealth of resources and subjective well-being
  • Freedom and wealth accumulation

    • According to Sen, what is the correct approach to assessing how well people are doing?

  • Their social status
  • Their subjective well-being
  • Their ability to live a life that we have reason to value (correct)
  • Their wealth of resources

    • What makes assessing capability more information-demanding than other accounts of advantage?

  • It focuses solely on wealth accumulation
  • It disregards subjective well-being
  • It has a much broader view of what constitutes the achievement of well-being (correct)
  • It emphasizes social status

    • What does the capabilities approach attempt to assess?

    <p>The freedom people have to make high-quality choices (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Sen argue is important in assessing how well people perform in terms of capacity?

    <p>Determining which functions are important to the good life (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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