Publication details
Sociální vyloučení (exkluze) a sociální začlenování (inkluze)
| Title in English | Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion: Concepts, Discourse, Agenda |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociologický časopis/ Czech Sociological Review |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | social exclusion; social inclusion; social cohesion; spatial exclusion; poverty; culture of poverty; social policy; policy discourse; open method of coordination; governance |
| Description | EU programme documents designed to influence the social policies of the member states are filled with concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion. This paper aims to clarify these concepts as they are employed in academic and public policy discourse and to discuss the societal function of this discourse and the impact of the European agenda of social inclusion. The authors show that although concepts of social exclusion and social inclusion are far from straightforward in meaning, their influence on public policy diskurse and agenda is evident. The reason is that they redirect social policy towards a multidimensional approach, towards balancing rights and obligations, and towards more complex but also local and individualised policies, though the corresponding discourse bears the normative features of a social vision. |
| Related projects: |