Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title in the
Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is a
four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research on
the intellectual origins and the development of 'socal exclusion',
a critical concept in the social sciences in general and sociology
in particular. The pervasiveness of the concept is well illustrated
by the fact that it is almost impossible to access a policy
document from most governments or international agencies dealing
with issues of poverty, inequality, under-development, poor
educational attainment, poor health, rural development, or urban
regeneration, without finding 'social exclusion' identified as a
problem and methods for including the excluded proposed as
solutions. And yet the term is a protean one and has been employed
in different ways by academics across a range of disciplines and
fields. Moreover, it is translated into practice in different ways
which reflect its complex and contested meaning. Researchers and
students in all the core social science disciplines and in a range
of professional programmes-including those in health, education,
social work, housing, planning and training for religious
ministry-must contend with the concept, the reality it seeks to
describe, and the ways in which the term has influenced both the
development and implementation of public policy in the widest sense
of that term. This four-volume collection draws together key texts
relevant to this important topic. Volume One reviews the nature and
history of the term 'social exclusion' and examines ways in which
the idea has been used in social research. Volume Two covers income
distribution; the nature of class in post-industrial societies and
the related dimensions of inequality in relation to gender,
ethnicity and age; social exclusion in the changing city; and the
general political context of post-democracy with special reference
to partnership and participation. Volume Three explores the use of
the term 'social exclusion' and programmes of social inclusion in
specific policy areas including taxation and cash benefits, urban
regeneration, health, education, housing, and transport. The final
volume in the collection gathers together material to examine
programmes specifically directed towards countering social
exclusion, with particular reference to community development, and
'joined-up' government policy. It also considers radical
alternatives to those policies. Fully indexed and with a
comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which
places the collected material in its historical and intellectual
context, Social Exclusion will is an essential reference work,
destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research
resource. It will also be of especial interest to policy-makers and
practitioners engaged with 'social exclusion' as a social problem.
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