Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gasper, D.R.
Author-Name-Last: Gasper
Author-Name-First: Des
Author-Name: van der Maesen, L.J.G.
Author-Name-Last: van der Maesen
Author-Name-First: Laurent
Author-Name: Truong, T.-D.
Author-Name-Last: Truong
Author-Name-First: Thanh-Dam
Author-Name: Walker, A.
Author-Name-Last: Walker
Author-Name-First: Alan
Title: Human security and social quality: contrasts and complementaries
Abstract: Two authors who have been leaders of the "social quality approach" that
 emerged in European social policy circles in the 1990s, and two authors who
 have worked with the "human development" and "human security" approaches
 that emerged in international development policy circles in the 1980s and 90s,
 collaborate in this paper in order to outline and compare the two traditions.
 The "human development" tradition has focused on the quality of individual
 human lives, understood as influenced by interconnections that transcend
 conventional disciplinary boundaries; its "human security" branch goes deeper
 into study of human vulnerability and the textures of daily life. The "social
 quality" tradition tries to understand individual lives as lived within a societal
 fabric, to identify and measure key elements of that fabric, and to develop a
 correspondingly grounded public policy approach. The paper is a first step in a
 project to assess the possible complementarity, in theorising and practical
 application, of these two streams of work.
Creation-Date: 2008-12-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/18731/wp462.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:euriss
Keywords: Quality of life, human development approach, human security, social quality approach, the social
Handle: RePEc:ems:euriss:18731