Exclusión social: fundamentos teóricos y de la intervención

Abstract

Post-industrial society has brought about a new social order and the birth of new expressions to define and categorize their social consequences, including the one we know as social exclusion. This work consists of a literature review of the theoretical contributions of some authors about social exclusion, in order to promote critical reflection of social intervention professionals about the emergence of this notion, its political connotation and its naturalization as an inevitable phenomenon. This conceptual analysis leads toward theoretical proposals of social intervention in situations of social exclusion and the identification of Critical Social Work as a focus from which social problems with structural origin could be addressed.