{"id":2064,"date":"2025-12-16T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/el-emke.aegean.gr\/koinoniologia\/?post_type=course&#038;p=2064"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:43:31","slug":"koinonikos-apokleismos-perithoriopo","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/info\/course\/koinonikos-apokleismos-perithoriopo\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Exclusion, Marginalization and Vulnerable Social Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main objective of the course is to highlight, describe and analyze in its individual aspects the phenomenon of social exclusion in modern societies. The course is considered introductory to the study of vulnerable social groups at the local level, to the extent that it allows us to grasp, first of all on a theoretical and conceptual basis, the broader social, political, cultural and administrative processes that produce and reproduce the phenomenon of exclusion as a negative dynamic of social coexistence and social relations. Therefore, within the course we will not limit ourselves to conceptualizing social exclusion exclusively as a lack of access to goods and services, but we will expand on all its dimensions: Exclusion from the labor market, exclusion from the processes of production and dissemination of knowledge and cultural capital, exclusion from participatory processes of political influence, exclusion from experiential practices of equal social coexistence (e.g. racism). All the above exclusion processes will be examined as dependent variables, in the sense that one influences the other, creating a spiral dynamic of exclusion that reproduces (often in an expanded manner) the overall social degradation of the individual and his or her relationships. A parallel objective of the course is to highlight the collective dimension of the phenomenon of social exclusion, that is, to identify the social groups that suffer or are most likely to suffer exclusion and to describe and analyze their characteristics by linking them to the multiple nature of exclusion (women, the unemployed, the working poor, the &#039;structurally unemployed&#039;, young people, immigrants, refugees, gypsies, single-parent families, the geographically excluded, disabled people, substance users). Highlighting the collective dimension of exclusion requires, in addition to the analysis of the structural processes of the exclusion process, the analysis of a positive dimension, which are the collective actions that excluded social groups sometimes develop in order to break through their exclusion. In this context, some such cases of collective action will be presented. The course shows synergy with the other courses of the postgraduate program and in particular with the courses of social policy and quality of life, in the sense that it explores the social background and the production mechanisms of collectivities with the problems of which any body, institutional (supranational organizations, state administration, regional bodies and local self-government) or non-institutional (social movements, non-governmental organizations, citizen movements), that approaches aspects of social policy and quality of life in corresponding contexts must confront.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-2064","course","type-course","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.aegean.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}