Social Exclusion Flashcards
LEVITAS 1998 3 DISCOURSES OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
- REDISTRIBUTIONIST DISCOURSE (RED)
Townsend 1979 - MORAL UNDERCLASS DISCOURSE (MUD)
Jones, 2011 - SOCIAL INTEGRATIONIST DISCOURSE (SID)
Schoon- mixed communities year?
2001
COMMUNITY @ HEART NDC
Macleavy 2008
Atkinson 2000
A way of describing the new poverty of post industrial/post fordist society
Social exclusion in UK new labours response 1997
SEU
New deal of communities
Lawless and beatty 2013
MORAL UNDERCLASS
Jones 2011
UNDERCLASS ARE CULTURALLY DISTINCTIVE FROM MAINSTREAM
FOCUSES ON BEHAVIOUR OF THE POOR RATHER STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES
BENEFITS ARE BAD AS THEY ENCOURAGE DEPENDENCE
INEQUALITIES IN WIDER SOCIETY IGNORED
GENDER DISCOURSE
UNPAID WORK IGNORED
MORAL UNDERCLASS DISCOURSE
Focuses on poverty
Poverty is the cause of social exclusion
Poverty falls if you increase benefits
Citizenship through inclusion
Implies radical redistribution of power and resources
REDISTRIBUTIONIST DISCOURSE
TOWNSEND 1979
Argued that relative deprivation concerned whether people had sufficient resources to participate in the customary life of society and fulfil what was expected of them as a member of it.
A resource level below which people drop out of community life
Narrow definition
Hides inequalities of paid work
Fails to address unpaid work and gender implications
Undermines the legitimacy of participant in paid work
Social integrationist discourse