From the course: Design Thinking, Social Innovation, and Complex Systems
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Addressing disadvantage
From the course: Design Thinking, Social Innovation, and Complex Systems
Addressing disadvantage
- We've explored individual capabilities. Now let's take a look at how capabilities compound or collectively falter. In their book Disadvantage, Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit explored patterns of decline or improvement in people's lives through the lens of capabilities. In their research on corrosive disadvantage, they reveal how the lack of social affiliation is especially destructive. The cascading negative impacts of social exclusion are so powerful they control all other aspects of living. This not only excludes people from opportunity, it results in everything from depression to reduced life expectancy. While disadvantage is clustered in ways that lead to impossible situations for people living at the margins of society, it's also true that trends of capability improvements are possible. The term fertile functioning identifies patterns of positive growth where the realization of one capability enhances…
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