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Social psychology: Altruism · Attribution · Attitudes · Conformity · Discrimination · Groups · Interpersonal relations · Obedience · Prejudice · Norms · Perception · Index · Outline
Social capabilities are the areas of social functioning identified within the theory of deep democracy associated with healthy living. Performance in these areas is underpinned by social skills and when socially valued may be considered human rights
Summary of Social Capabilities[]
1. Being able to live to the end of a complete human life, as far as possible
2. Being able to be courageous
3. Being able to have opportunities for sexual satisfaction
4. Being able to move from place to place
5. Being able to avoid unnecessary and non-useful pain and to have pleasurable experiences
6. Being able to use the five senses
7. Being able to imagine
8. Being able to think and reason
9. Being acceptably well-informed
10. Being able to have attachments to things and persons outside ourselves
11. Being able to love, grieve, to feel longing and gratitude
12. Being able to form a conception of the good
13. Capability to choose; ability to form goals, commitments, values
14. Being able to engage in critical reflection about the planning of one’s own life
15. Being able to live for and to others, to recognize and show concern for other human beings, to engage in various forms of familial and social interaction
16. Being capable of friendship
17. Being able to visit and entertain friends
18. Being able to participate in the community
19. Being able to participate politically and being capable of justice
20. Being able to live with concern for and in relation to animals, plants and the world of nature
21. Being able to laugh, to play, to enjoy recreational activities
22. Being able to live one’s own life and nobody else’s
23. Being able to live in one’s very own surroundings and context
24. Capability to have self-respect
25. Capability to appear in public without shame
26. Capability to live a rich and fully human life, up to the limit permitted by natural possibilities
27. Ability to achieve valuable functionings
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