Social Exclusion and Young People - Perspective of Social Work Aspects

Abstract

Social exclusion now threatens millions of young people in the form of multi-dimensional existence due to the exponential development of technologies, industrialization, and informatization. Furthermore, in today’s society, socially excluded young people are more likely to encounter further social and emotional marginalization, material deprivation, and health problems, all of which increase their risk of exclusion. Social work profession through practice defending human rights, enhances human well-being and social justice to promote social change. These factors are aligned to the inclusiveness of the social fabric. How social workers operate on multiple societal levels, from working with individuals to improve the well-being of excluded young people, to focusing on integration efforts that support entire communities, has long been a hot topic in social work. Therefore, this paper focuses on the issue of social exclusion in current time and young people aged 18 to 29. It explores with statistics and charts to demonstrate that relativeness between excluded young people with levels of education, why modern individualism established a new form of social relations that became central to modern social exclusion, the perspective of the social work profession, why the development of modernization has led to some young people are excluded; what are the most evident and hidden risks, and how these risks are distributed among excluded groups.