What does ‘social exclusion’ mean?
Answer:
- According to this concept, poverty must be seen in terms of the poor having to live only in a poor surrounding with other poor people, and excluded from enjoying social equality with better-off people in a better surrounding.
- Social exclusion can be both a cause as well as a consequence of poverty in the rural sense.
- It is a process through which individuals or groups are excluded from facilities, benefits and opportunities that others enjoy.
- An example is the prevalence of the caste system in India in which people belonging to certain castes are excluded from equal opportunities.