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Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion in the Czech Society

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Project Identification
GA403/03/1007
Project Period
1/2003 - 1/2005
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
Czech Science Foundation
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MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Social Studies
Keywords
social exclusion, social inclusion, citizenship, social justice, deprivation

The concept of social exclusion is usually defined as an exclusion from the labour market or within the labour market: unemployment and a combination of low wages with job insecurity. It can also consist in exclusion based on ethnicity or on other grounds. This is linked to exclusion from the standard of living and erosion of life chances, political exclusion rooted in the denial of citizen's and political rights and erosion of active citizenship (in a more narrow sense that prevents the persons concerned from sharing certain social statuses), as well as cultural exclusion (denial of individuals' or collectives' right to share cultural capital, education and values of the society). The project aims to identify the dimensions of social exclusion by applying a subjective perspective (not only from what "they are" excluded, but also from what "they find themselves excluded"), and to identify the level, forms, contents and dynamics of exclusion in selected social categories at risk: the long-term unemployed, welfare benefits recipients - underpaid persons whose families live on incomes close to the subsistence minimum, the Roma, single-parent families and disabled persons. What does their exclusion consist in, what is its impact on their identity, level of anomie and active citizenship? The aim is also to explore the perception of social exclusion and the attitudes to possible affirmative action in the mainstream of society. At last, the aim is to inquire into the role of the public and social policy ("who is considered at risk of social exclusion; what is the construction of these persons‘ entitlements; what impact does it have on these persons; what are the needs for intervention).

Publications

Total number of publications: 28

2004

2003

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