Professor H Dean, OLD 2.30, Dr K Stewart, OLD 2.36 and others.

For MSc Social Policy and Planning, MSc City Design and Social Policy, MSc Health, Population and Society, MSc Criminal Justice Policy, MSc European Social Policy, MSc Social Policy (Research), MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MPA Public and Social Policy/MPA Public and Economic Policy/MPA Public Policy and Management/MPA International Development/MPA European Public and Economic Policy and other MScs at the discretion of the teachers responsible.

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 Lectures and 10 Seminars, LT.

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.

A two-hour written examination in the ST.