Prof Hartley Dean OLD2.30 and Prof Stephen Jenkins OLD2.29

This course is available on the MPA in European Public and Economic Policy, MPA in International Development, MPA in Public Policy and Management, MPA in Public and Economic Policy, MPA in Public and Social Policy, MSc in City Design and Social Science, MSc in Criminal Justice Policy, MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Health, Population and Society, MSc in Social Policy (European and Comparative Social Policy), MSc in Social Policy (Research) and MSc in Social Policy (Social Policy and Planning). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course focuses on the emergence of social exclusion as a key concept in social policy and its use in developing and industrialized countries; changes in inequality and their causes; the theoretical and empirical issues provoked by the 'underclass' debate; family change and disadvantage; long term unemployment and welfare-to-work; area segregation, housing and 'welfare ghettos'; ethnic division; employment; education; social exclusion and citizenship.

10 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in the LT. 2 hours of seminars in the ST.

Basic reading list for the course includes: R Lister (Ed), Charles Murray and the Underclass: the developing debate, IEA, 1996; D Held and A Kaya (Eds), Global Inequality, Polity, 2007; J Hills et al (Eds), Understanding Social Exclusion, OUP, 2002; D. Dorling, Injustice: Why social inequality matters, The Policy Press, 2010; National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK, Government Equality Office/CASE, 2010; C Pantazis, et al (Eds), Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The millennium survey, The Policy Press, 2006; G Rodgers, et al (Eds), Social Exclusion: Rhetoric, reality, responses, ILO, 1995.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.