social exclusion
Denied full participation
Social exclusion is the process or state of being marginalized from full participation in society—whether through poverty, discrimination, lack of access to services, or institutional barriers.
The term appears frequently in policy discussions: Programs aimed at reducing social exclusion among the elderly.
Unlike simple poverty, social exclusion emphasizes disconnection from social networks, civic life, and economic opportunity.
Removal of voting rights
- povertySevere lack of resources
- disempowermentLoss of agency
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
- underclassLowest socioeconomic group
voicelessness · powerlessness · deprivation · dispossession · structural inequality · glass ceiling · underrepresentation · tokenism
State of lacking companions
- alienationState of being isolated
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- disconnectionState of being severed
estrangement · abandonment · aloofness · invisibility · neglect · solitude · emotional distance · friendlessness
Preformed unfavorable opinion
- biasUnfair inclination or prejudice
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- sexismGender-based prejudice
- ageismPrejudice targeting older people
homophobia · xenophobia · bigotry · intolerance · classism · ableism · casteism · colorism
Deliberately avoiding someone
- snubbingPointedly ignoring someone
- blackballingGroup exclusion practice
- banishmentForced removal from place
- expulsionForced permanent removal
excommunication · rejection · outcast · pariah · cold shoulder · silent treatment · boycott · blacklisting
disenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
- povertySevere lack of resources
- disempowermentLoss of agency
- ghettoizationForced residential segregation
underclass · voicelessness · powerlessness · deprivation · dispossession · structural inequality · glass ceiling · underrepresentation · tokenism · second-class citizen
loneliness
State of lacking companions
- alienationState of being isolated
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
disconnection · estrangement · abandonment · aloofness · invisibility · neglect · solitude · emotional distance · friendlessness · rejected
prejudice
Preformed unfavorable opinion
ageism · homophobia · xenophobia · bigotry · intolerance · classism · ableism · casteism · colorism · antisemitism
shunning
Deliberately avoiding someone
- snubbingPointedly ignoring someone
- blackballingGroup exclusion practice
- banishmentForced removal from place
expulsion · excommunication · rejection · outcast · pariah · cold shoulder · silent treatment · boycott · blacklisting · exile
- social classupper class, middle class, lower class, working class, class
- social psychologyconformity, attribution, groupthink, group dynamics, bystander effect
- sociologystratification, norms, class, habitus, deviance
- social crueltybullying, harassment, humiliation, shaming, mocking
- poverty factorsdeprivation, hardship, low income, low wages, joblessness
- RomaRomani, Kale, Rom, Chai, family clans
social exclusionsocial inclusion
Full societal participation
inclusion · social acceptance · belonging · integration · social integration
social exclusioncivic engagement
Active citizenship in community
access · enfranchisement · equal access · engagement · involvement
social exclusioncentrality
Core significance or position
social capital · social standing · elite status · social mobility · upward mobility
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