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How Has The Notion of Social Exclusion Developed In The European Discourse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Jonathan Bradshaw
Jonathan Bradshaw*
Affiliation:
Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, United Kingdom
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Abstract

This paper reflects on the development of the idea of social exclusion in European and particularly in British discourses. When it first emerged, social exclusion seemed to add to little to poverty and in some guises carried a great deal of behaviourist ideological baggage, or blamed the poor. Over time, however, experience in the UK has shown that social exclusion has broadened the research agenda and opened up new possibilities for policy. This paper contributes to these debates by presenting new estimates of poverty and exclusion in Britain using data from the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey. The estimates confirm that poverty and exclusion are related, but distinct concepts. There remains the question of whether social exclusion has not entered official discussions in Australia as a result of a ‘Howard effect’ or because of some more fundamental resistance in the Australian political — and academic — culture.

Type
Symposium on Social Inclusion
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , January 2004 , pp. 168 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2004

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