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Welfare ✅ - Coggle Diagram
Welfare ✅
Sociocultural
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Hegel stressed the importance of education and self-development - endorsement of policies that promote access to education
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Sociopolitical
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Hegel believed that the state plays a central role in mediating tensions and conflicts that arise in the civil society. (Conflict theory of society)
The state has a duty to ensure welfare of its citizens by creating a legal and political framework that protects rights and wellbeing
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Intersectionality
Individuals may belong to multiple marginalised groups (e.g. being a woman, POC, lesbian).
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Social Contract theory
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Ethical dimensions
Utilitarianism
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Muhammad Yunus - founded the Grameen Bank, which helped to alleviate poverty by providing small loans to the impoverished
Deontology
Immanuel Kant
Providing welfare is satisfying the moral duty to ensure that individuals are treated with dignity and respect, irrespective of the consequences
Virtue Ethics
Aristotle
Welfare policies that encourage virtuous behaviour such as compassion and charity could be considered ethically valuable
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