Basic Assets for an Inclusive Society

Abstract

Various policy ideas have been proposed to position social policy as a means of inclusion for those who have been socially excluded. However, social inclusion in a society in which exclusionary pressures are at work is self-contradictory. How is it possible to transform society into a more inclusive one, while welcoming people into society and curbing exclusionary pressures ? This study organized the development of inclusive social policies into three stages and introduced the idea of Basic Assets as a framework for reorganizing previous policy discussions into a new comprehensive theory of social inclusion.