POG 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unemployment Benefits, Public Housing, Karl Polanyi

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 316
• Professor: Frederica Gomes

Document Summary

The study of human wellbeing, living a good life (dean 2012, pp. Understanding these things is the study of social policy. Life of pleasure and enjoyment, freedom and responsibility and to be a thinker and philosopher (what it is, in his opinion, to live a good life) Our needs for material goods is relative to our context while our need for capabilities is absolute. Absolute needs absolutely needs to live a good life (food, water, clothing, shelter) Relative needs iphone, computer, skateboard (may or may not need) Not everybody in canada lives a live worth living, according to social policy researchers (doyal and gough) Freedom to live in a good life under capitalism is ultimately unachievable and impossible. The study of social policy entails the study of the social relations necessary for human wellbeing and the systems by which wellbeing may be promoted or, for that matter, impaired. (dean 2012, pp.