Human Needs: Overview

Dover, Michael A.

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“…The theoretical typology of three sources of injustice (oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation) presented here arose initially not from a process of formal theory construction but from the necessity for an inclusive approach to involving students in effective learning about the nature of oppression. Although this typology has now been applied to a more formal partial theory of social injustice integrated with extant theory of human need (Dover, 2016a;Dover, 2016b), its origins in the classroom were serendipitous. This theory can help answer an important question arising from the literature on microaggressions (Sue et al, 2007, p. 277): "Herein lies a major dilemma.…”

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The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

Dover

2016

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

Dover

2016

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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“…Figure 1 illustrates the compatibility of these two theories, which this paper refers to as THN (theory of human need) and SDT (self-determination theory). Such abbreviations are commonly adopted (Deci and Ryan 2000, Dover 2016c, Gough 2015.…”

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“…This has been the case for several reasons. First, McCarthyism had a deleterious influence on American intellectual life (Dover 2016c). For example, during the McCarthy period, the plates of the book Common Human Needs were destroyed by the federal government, following Congressional criticism of its prescriptions for human well-being (Posner 1995, Towle 1944, Towle 1945.…”

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A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Dover

2019

Humanity & Society

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This article presents an original needs-based partial theory of human injustice and shows its relationship to existing theories of human need and human liberation. The theory is based on an original typology of three social structural sources of human injustice, a partial theorization of the mechanisms of human injustice, and a needs-based theorization of the nature of human injustice, as experienced by individuals. This article makes a sociological contribution to normative social theory by clarifying the relationship of human injustice to human needs, human rights, and human liberation. The theory contends that human injustice is produced when oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation create systematic inequality in opportunities to address human needs, leading to wrongful need deprivation and the resulting serious harm. In one longer sentence, this needs-based theory of the sources, mechanisms, and nature of human injustice contends that three distinct social systemic sources—oppression, mechanistic dehumanization, and exploitation—produce unique and/or overlapping social mechanisms, which create systematic inequality in opportunities to address universal human needs in culturally specific ways, thus producing the nature of the human injustice theorized here: wrongfully unmet needs and serious harm.

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“…These usually include basic foodstuffs but vary greatly across countries, following pressures from particular industries and lobby groups. 11 The argument for a 'smart VAT' is to introduce deliberate variations in the rate, higher to discourage bad consumption and lower to encourage desirable consumption. The proposal has mainly been advocated on health and well-being grounds, to improve healthy eating and discourage obesity [69].…”

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“…I do not consider other C1 interventions in this paper. 11 The UK, almost alone, charges a much lower rate (5%) on residential energy. 12 Larger households and households with children and disabled people would have higher needs.…”

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Recomposing consumption: defining necessities for sustainable and equitable well-being

Gough¹

2017

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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This paper focuses on consumption in the affluent world and the resulting level, composition and distribution of consumption-based emissions. It argues that public policy should foster the recomposition of consumption, while not disadvantaging poorer groups in the population. To combine these two imperatives entails making a distinction between goods and services that are necessary for a basic level of well-being, and those that are surplus to this requirement. The argument proceeds in six stages. First, the paper outlines a theory of universal need, as an alternative conception of well-being to consumer preference satisfaction. Second, it proposes a dual strategy methodology for identifying need satisfiers or necessities in a given social context. Then, it applies this methodology to identify a minimum bundle of necessary consumption items in the UK and speculates how it might be used to identify a maximum bundle for sustainable consumption. The next part looks at corporate barriers and structural obstacles in the path of sustainable consumption. The following part reveals a further problem: mitigation policies can result in perverse distributional outcomes when operating in contexts of great inequality. The final section suggests four ecosocial public policies that would simultaneously advance sustainable and equitable consumption in rich nations.This article is part of the themed issue 'Material demand reduction'.

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Human Needs: Overview

Cited by 19 publications

References 89 publications

The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

The moment of microaggression: The experience of acts of oppression, dehumanization, and exploitation

A Needs-based Partial Theory of Human Injustice: Oppression, Dehumanization, Exploitation, and Systematic Inequality in Opportunities to Address Human Needs

Recomposing consumption: defining necessities for sustainable and equitable well-being

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