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The concept of social exclusion and the new Durkheimian hegemony

Ruth Levitas
- 01 Feb 1996 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 46, pp 5-20
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This paper argued that the concept of social exclusion has become embedded as a crucial element in poverty and inequality, and argued that social exclusion was originally developed to describe the manifold consequences of poverty.
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This article argues that the concept of social exclusion, which was orig inally developed to describe the manifold consequences of poverty and inequality, has become embedded as a crucial element w...

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The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government

Nikolas Rose
- 01 Aug 1996 - 
TL;DR: This article argued that the social is no longer a key zone, traget and objective of strategies of government, arguing that economic relations are no longer easily understood as organized as organized across a single bounded national economy.
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Social Cohesion and Multilevel Urban Governance

TL;DR: The authors argue that in the past there was a greater correspondence between the interests of economic élites and the masses at the local level, when loyalty to one's city and public investment in it corresponded with selfinterest and was expected to bring eventual rewards to all.
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Space, Politics, and the Political

TL;DR: In this paper, a reading of Ranciere's conceptualization of politics and its implications for the links between space, politics, and the political is presented, with the emphasis on the spatiality of spaces.
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Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three issues critical to the impact of the new orthodoxy of local partnership: the capacity of partnerships as interorganizational forms of local governance; their inclusiveness; and the extent of outcomes which can be attributed to partnership as a distinctive mode of local government.
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Lost in Translation: The Social Investment Perspective and Gender Equality

TL;DR: The social investment perspective is replacing standard neoliberalism in Latin America as well as Europe as mentioned in this paper, with it come ideas about social citizenship that reconfigure the citizenship regimes of the three regions.
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The Division of Labour in Society

TL;DR: In this paper, Durkheim's Life and Work: Timeline 1858-1917- Suggestions for Further Reading- Original Translator's Note- The Division of Labour in Society by Emile Durkhere- Preface to the First Edition (1893) - Preface and introduction to the Second Edition (1902) - Introduction - Part I: The Method of Determining This Function - Part II: THE CAUSES and CONDITIONS- 8 The Progress of the Division of labour and of Happiness- 9 The Causes- 10 Secondary Factors- 11
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Poverty in the United Kingdom : a survey of household resources and standards of living

TL;DR: Based on exclusive access to the largest ever survey of poverty in the UK, and its predecessor surveys in the 1980s and 1990s, Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack track changes in deprivation and paint a devastating picture of the reality of poverty today and its causes as mentioned in this paper.
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The state we're in

Will Hutton
TL;DR: Hutton as mentioned in this paper argues that the weakness of the UK economy can't be divorced from the problems of the rest of society, and has uncomfortable explanations for the attitudes that prevent us moving forward into the twenty-first century as a truly modern country.
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The Free Economy and the Strong State

Andrew Gamble
TL;DR: The Social Market Economy (SME) is a popular economic theory in the British Conservative party as mentioned in this paper, and it has made increasing headway within the Conservative party in the last ten years.