Exclus ou citoyens ? Les pauvres devant les sciences sociales*

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1474-0583|37|2|323-342

ISSN: 0003-9756

Source: Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, Vol.37, Iss.2, 1996-11, pp. : 323-342

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Abstract

A logic of exclusion-inclusion nowadays dominates the debate on poverty and social policies, namely through categories such as underclass and social exclusion. Thus, poverty becomes an essentially moral problem, rather than political, and the poor are treated as a group apart. Though different, both concepts work to reinforce the fracture separating the poor, and increasing a process of erosion of citizenship ties—what Madeleine Rébérioux denounces as being today a crisis not only of work, but of political and civic ties as well.