Discourses of Exclusion
Reconceptualising Participation Amongst Young People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2114558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross Fergusson (0000-0002-3967-813X, The Open University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-320 |
| Publication date | 2004-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279403007451 |
| OpenAlex | W2097621763 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper considers how varying discourses of social exclusion have informed policies regarding young people's participation in education, training and employment. Drawing on a cohort study of over 800 16-18 olds, the research suggests that the binary categories of exclusion/inclusion, and marginalisation/participation grow less and less adequate as parameters for understanding changing patterns of post-16 participation and non-participation. It is argued that a range of statutory, structural, financial and social pressures to normalise participation produce forms of inclusion that are ephemeral and that carry very different meanings from those implied in discourses of exclusion. The paper gives a brief overview of the changing context in which participation needs to be understood, then presents evidence and analysis of young people's trajectories after 16. Some interpretations are offered of a wide range of meanings of participation, which suggest that old notions of transition to independence are unsustainable for a substantial minority of young people, and that patterns of participation are increasingly complex, have multiple significances, and carry the potential to mask inequalities and new forms of exclusion. These readings have major implications for how we conceptualise social exclusion, and for policy developments associated with it
Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inclusion (mineral) · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Independence (probability theory) · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Social exclusion · Sociology · Statutory law · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · Youth Development and Social Support · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Dismissing Disaffection
Individualisation and social exclusion
International governmental organisations and global youth unemployment
Intervención con Jóvenes NiNi en Centros de Inserción Socio Laboral
Asylum-seeking migration, identity-building and social cohesion
Longer-term Labour-market Consequences of Economic Inactivity during Young Adulthood
Learning Selves And Citizenship
Qualitative Research and the Evidence Base of Policy
Respect, deference, respectability and place
Social inclusion’ through sports-based interventions
Social exclusion in EU lifelong learning policies
Between rights and obligations – rethinking youth participation at the margins
Children on the Margins
Transitions from Unemployment to Education in Europe
Social Inclusion and the Limits of Pragmatic Liberalism
La recherche participative et le développement de communautés de pratique
Youth, the ‘underclass’ and social exclusion
Making better sense of post‐16 destinations
Status Zero’
The concept of social exclusion and the new Durkheimian hegemony
Poverty, exclusion and New Labour
Normalized dislocation and new subjectivities in post-16 markets for education and work
New Deal for Young People
Rethinking Youth Transitions
Mapping the New Deal
Restructuring the Labour Market
Agency, Modernity and Social Policy
Market Workfare
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |