1. CONDITIONAL FACTORS OF SOCIAL QUALITY SOCIAL INCLUSION
Alan Walker
Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology
University of Sheffield UK
Second Asian Conference on Social Quality
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
National Taiwan University
28-29th March 2007

2. SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INCLUSION - A SOCIAL QUALITY PERSPECTIVE
SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION
OPERATIONALISING SOCIAL INCLUSION
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

3. SOCIAL INCLUSION - A SOCIAL QUALITY PERSPECTIVE
Citizenship as participation
The role of differentiation
A complexity of sub-systems and relationships
The centrality of integration
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

4. SOCIAL INCLUSION Social Cohesion and Social Inclusion
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

5. SOCIAL INCLUSION - A SOCIAL QUALITY PERSPECTIVE
Citizenship as participation
The role of differentiation
A complexity of sub-systems and relationships
The centrality of integration
Definition and nature of social inclusion
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

6. DEFINITION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION
The degree to which people are and feel integrated
in the different relationships, organisations,
sub-systems and structures that constitute everyday life.
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

7. NATURE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION
Dynamic processes
Comprehensive
Multi-layered
Objective and Subjective
Ideologically contested
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

8. SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION
Relationship with poverty
Inclusion vs Exclusion
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

9. POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Social exclusion is a broader concept than poverty,
encompassing not only low material means but the
inability to participate effectively in economic,
social, political, and cultural life, and, in some
characterisations, alienation and distance from
the mainstream of society.
Duffy (1995)
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

10. POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
A dynamic process of being shut out, fully or partially, from any of the social, economic, political or cultural systems which determine the social integration of a person in society.
Walker and Walker (1997)
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

11. POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
People are considered to be socially excluded if they:
are prevented from participating fully in economic, social and civil life and/or when their access to income and other resources (personal, family and cultural) is so inadequate as to exclude them from enjoying a standard of living that is regarded as acceptable by the society in which they live
Gallie and Paugam (2002)
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

12. POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
An individual is socially excluded if he or she does not participate to a reasonable degree over time in certain activities of his or her society, and (a) this is for reasons beyond his or her control, and (b) he or she would like to participate.
Burchardt (2000)
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

13. INCLUSION VS EXCLUSION
Not a simple obverse relationship
Built on agentic aspiration
Poractive vs reactive
Citizenship vs commodification
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

14. OPERATIONALISING SOCIAL INCLUSION
Subject matter: social inclusion
Specificity: integration in multiple systems and sub-systems
Mutual focus: self-realisation and collective identities
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

15. DOMAINS AND SUB-DOMAINS
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

16. SUB-DOMAINS AND INDICATORS
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

17. SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL INCLUSION - A SOCIAL QUALITY PERSPECTIVE
SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION
OPERATIONALISING SOCIAL INCLUSION
CONCLUSION
Alan Walker, Second Asian Conference on Social Quality, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, 28-29th March 2007

18. Globalisation and Welfare Reform East and West
CONDITIONAL FACTORS OF SOCIAL QUALITY SOCIAL INCLUSION
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