Publication details
Dlouhodobě nezaměstnaní absolventi škol a zkušenost sociální exkluze.
| Title in English | Long-Term Unemployed Graduates and the Experience of Social Exclusion. |
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Sociální vyloučení a sociální politika |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | Long-term unemployment; social exclusion; transition to adulthood; youth; |
| Description | The aim of this article is primarily to discuss an adequate notion of the concept of social exclusion for the social group of long-term unemployed school graduates, against a background of this group’s specific life situation, and explore the significance of human and social capital for reducing the risk of social exclusion. The second aim is to confront case studies of the life situation of two long-term unemployed graduates, Katka and Karel, in order to enlighten the reader on the complex nature and the specific types of social experience that these people have. In so doing, the article focuses both on the forms of social exclusion present in the interviewees’ experience and those absent from it, as well as on the role of the previously mentioned forms of capital. The executed analyses suggest Sen’s notion of social exclusion as a concept adequate for this group, as it can identify the difficulties associated not only with exclusion from certain segments of society, but also with the sheer impossibility of entering such segments in the first place. At the same time, Sen’s concept of social exclusion takes account of the life goal currently pursued by the individual, represented, in the case of school graduates, by a gradual transition to adulthood. |
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