Abstract
The end of the Cold War, but also other global events and phenomena (New World Order, the globalization process, the regional conflicts, the international migration, the economic and financial crises, etc.) have had a global multidirectional, but also regional and punctual impact on some nations.
The social, economic, geopolitical, military processes that followed were not a mere descriptive evolution, but a complex one, and the development of some specific human societies caused the economy, the political system and the populations of these countries to be in difficulty.
Many macro social variables of reference have changed as these processes were in progress.
The generated feeling was that, for the only remaining global power, but also for the affirmed or affirming regional powers, there was no Plan B.
If we return to the social analysis plan, any beginning, any reconsideration of social policies with major impact will be related (directly or indirectly) to the international, European (or other regions of the world) and national context.
The coordinates of social inclusion as reality and the intervention modalities are confined to these desires. The proposed approach requires the existence of sustainable economies, based on economic growth, with the real possibility of investing in people and promoting social inclusion.
These two reference vectors, the sustainable economy – the sustainability and the process of social inclusion centred on the needs of the people, can ensure a balance for each country that respects not only the political and power „game”, but also the social aspect. In real terms, the statistical and social values of social inclusion will depend on the social measurement and the control of the risks of social inclusion.
The diversity of the societies, by reference to different social indicators, but also to a set of principles and values, imposes relatively different forms and methods of intervention for these types of intervention, even if they are sub-summed to the same process. From the person’s perspective, the access to the process of social inclusion must be permanent and sequential, according to needs. We also have refusals for integration into an inclusive process from individuals and social groups.
This type of theoretical construct, in the form of a project, imposes a purpose, in direct but sinuous correspondence with the three fundamental elements of reference: social exclusion, social inclusion, full social integration. The social integration closes the circle of addressed solutions and determines the effectiveness of the measures that were taken.
In the collective, the public opinion, but also in the mass media perception, the process of social inclusion is presented and understood in a differentiated, selective way, with certain connotations in relation to the different areas of a country or to the ability to understand this complex and diverse process.
The interdisciplinary research project presented below includes six chapters. This type of approach will comprise theoretical and conceptual, methodological and field research components (if this is possible). The academic approach will be completed with a research report that will include some sets of measures and proposals for each area that it addresses. Certainly, we will try to identify the best solutions and to unlock a certain type of financial sustainability, but also of a different nature, towards various projects aimed at social inclusion.
An empirical finding and a potential minimal evaluation model:
In this area of social investigation, the efficiency of the intervention is not measured as a percentage. For example, if we have 100 cases per year in a community that require sustainability in multiple forms and we solve 5 cases per year, the result of the activity does not have an efficiency of 5%. Next year, because we work with people and not physical objects, we will have five less interventions.
CHAPTER I
HYPOTHESES CONCERNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INDUCED SOCIAL PHENOMENA
⦁ The end of the Cold War. Consequences and implications
⦁ Global, regional and national interests
⦁ Convergences and contradictions
⦁ A potential sustainable development. Opportunities and challenges
⦁ Social protection and assistance. Diversity and unity
⦁ People’s interests and investment in people
⦁ Induced social phenomena
1.7.1 Social exclusion vs. social inclusion. A bidirectional analysis
⦁ Small groups and social inclusion
⦁ The role and place of social structures and solving the problem of the phenomenon of social inclusion
⦁ Some conclusions
CHAPTER II
SOCIAL INCLUSION BETWEEN PHENOMENON AND SOCIAL PRAGMATISM
2.1 Social inclusion. Strategic perspectives
2.2 Intervention vectors
2.2.1 Defining elements. Priority strategies
2.3 The dynamics of social exclusion / inclusion phenomena
2.4 Social inclusion and typology
2.4.1 General social inclusion
2.4.2 Sectoral social inclusion
2.5 Social inclusion and social needs
2.5.1 Social inclusion and general needs
2.5.1.1 The existential needs and the Pyramid of Abraham Maslow
2.5.2 Social inclusion and sectoral needs
2.6 Social groups and the dynamics of inclusion
2.7 Elements for a theory of the inverted double pyramid
2.8 Social inclusion. Interdisciplinary approaches
2.9 Exclusion, inclusion, social integration
2.10 Towards an inclusive society?
2.10.1 The export of social inclusion, possibility and desideratum
2.11 Some conclusions
CHAPTER III
SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL NEEDS AND THE BALANCE OF INTERESTS
3.1 Sustainability, a „mobile” paradigm that is little integrated in the sustainable development system
3.2 Sustainability. Some conceptual demarcations
3.3 Sustainability, a social bing bang for the promotion of an inclusive society?
3.4 Types of sustainability
3.4.1 Permanent or temporary inclusion
3.4.2 Risks and failures
3.5 Social actors and sustainability
3.5.1 The role and place of the political environment, the business environment, of the civil society and of the church in the sustainability of the inclusive structure
3.6 Differentiated sustainability
3.7 Social policies and sustainability projects
3.8 Legal regulations in the field of social sustainability
3.9 Sustainability, between extreme poverty and relative poverty
3.10 The media and the issue of social inclusion
3.11 Some conclusions
CHAPTER IV
THE METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES OF THE SOCIAL INCLUSION
⦁ The sociological analysis
4.1 The defining elements of a fundamental research
4.1.1 Theories and concepts
4.2 Field research
4.2.1 Purpose and objectives
4.2.2 Working hypotheses
4.2.3 The investigated population
4.2.4 Techniques and methods of investigation
4.2.5 Operationalizing the concept of social inclusion (see Appendix 1)
4.2.6 Application of research tools
4.2.7 Initial processing and evaluation of information. The first conclusions
4.2.8 Research report
4.3 Case studies
4.4 Proposals, recommendations, types of interventions, solutions, differentiated for the categories of subjects and the social actors involved
⦁ The statistical analysis
4.5 Social inclusion and statistical analysis
4.5.1 Statistical variables and indicators. Multisectoral correlations and statistical analyzes
⦁ The demographic analysis
4.6 Social policies and demographic policies
4.6.1 Demographic variables, contributions to the gnoseology of the inclusive phenomenon
4.6.2 Demographic policies and the consequences for various social groups
⦁ The psychological analysis
4.7 Inter and intra-group behaviours and attitudes
4.8 Social inclusion and a possible psychological profile
4.9 Establishing some variables, computer programs and achieving a coefficient of individual, group and general profile social inclusion
⦁ The narrative analysis
4.10 Defining elements and fundamental coordinates in support of the narrative analysis
CHAPTER V
BETWEEN THE POLITICAL (ECONOMIC) DECIDENT AND THE PRAGMATISM OF THE IMPLEMENTING DECIDENT
5.1 The promotion of the priorities
5.2 Social protection and financial sustainability
5.3 Resources for promoting social inclusion
5.3.1 Public financing of the social inclusion services sector
5.3.2 Private financing of social inclusion services
5.3.3 Additional resources (donations, sponsorships, etc.)
5.3.4 Types of intervention
5.3.5 Resources, social needs and efficient use
5.4 Involvement of institutional structures
5.5 Human resources and inclusion issues
5.6 Strategic coordinates. Implementation and cohesion
5.7 Sectoral objectives and risk of failure
CHAPTER VI
SOCIAL INCLUSION AND A POSSIBLE PARADIGM OF THE FUTURE
The completion of this research project will allow the achievement of a vision, by evaluating all the reference vectors and by developing a new paradigm. This approach will be a complex one and will extend over a medium and long term period (5-10 years) and will be fully or partially validated through a confrontation with the immediate social realities and with the continuous dynamics of the society.
It will not be possible to completely eliminate the various aspects regarding social exclusion and the general implications on the process of social inclusion. No matter how important the financial or other type of sustainability will be in this kind of intervention, compared to the dynamics of the phenomenon under attention, there will not be possible to solve all the cases. The specialists in the field, the academic and university environment, the mass-media, the civil society and the church, and the other social actors involved will have to make consistent and joint efforts to reduce this phenomenon by referring to the whole society or to other social phenomena that can influence the smooth governing of the citadel. The completion of this complex and lasting process will only be certified when we have the reference indicators that can support and demonstrate a complete integration with the values and principles of the respective society.
Regardless of the good intentions and the availability of those involved in this process to solve such problems, we should not neglect under any circumstances the social, economic, and financial context, with international connotations.
We can achieve a sustainable economy, we can ensure an economic and financial development that will determine the support of the various social needs of the individuals or social groups, but a certain type of social solidarity is equally needed.
I will end with a quote from the famous historian A.J Toynbee:
“It is thus that universal states, universal churches and heroic epochs unite civilizations among themselves. They can be both contemporary and uncontemporaneous. The question arises if we were justified when we considered these three sets of elements as simply by-products of the disintegration of a single civilization. … In reality, universal states have a strong tendency to behave as if they were goals in themselves. In fact, they represent only a certain phase in a process of social disintegration. ” – “The Miracle of Immortality”
The text represents the point of view of the author
Sir.Velemir Radovan, PhD.
Faculty of Philosophy, Sociology specialization. PhD. in Social and Political
Sciences – Sociology, University of Bucharest.
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research. Publications: books, research, studies, essays.
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