TITLE:
Social Exclusion and Young People—Perspective of Social Work Aspects
AUTHORS:
Huiqiaoxian Dai
KEYWORDS:
Social Exclusion, Young People, Modernization, Risk, Statistics, Social Work
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.4,
April
19,
2022
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.