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Distinguish between people being socially excluded and people excluding themselves socially in societies.

  • UPSC 2013, 2010
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social exclusion is the process by which people are shut out of full participation in the economic, social and political life of their society. Brian Barry (2002) argued that exclusion, strictly speaking, is involuntary: it happens whatever the excluded want. Self-exclusion is voluntary withdrawal from common institutions. The two can look alike, yet they differ…

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  • The distinction
  • Being socially excluded
  • Excluding oneself
  • Why the line blurs
  • Conclusion

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