Outsider and insider expertise : the response of residents of deprived neighbourhoods to an academic definition of social exclusion
- 2002
The aim of this paper is to compare academic interpretation of the term social exclusion with the understanding of people with direct experience of the phenomenon. A preselected group of residents of deprived neighbourhoods were asked about various aspect of the concept and their responses compared with the definitins of social exclusion used by Burchardt, Le Grand and Piachaud in this Journal in 1999. In general, the residents' understading of the term corresponded well with the more academic definitions; however, in one or two key areas there were significant differences, suggesting that it might be useful for more academic concepts to be tested against the views of those with experience of the phenomenon which the concept is trying to capture
Social Exclusion Definitions Deprived Neighbourhoods