Social Welfare Problem and Sociology

The Sociology of Social Inclusion

This article looks at social inclusion from a sociological perspective. It argues that sociology complements biological and other natural order explanations of social stratification. The article interrogates a variety of forms of social integration, including ostracism within 5th century B.C. Greece, 19th-century solidarism, and Goffman’s mid-20th-century work on stigma. It does so to demonstra...

Welfare Problem

social reality and philosophy an account of the problem in the sociology of knowledge

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Social Choice and Welfare

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Segregation and Social Welfare

The aim of this paper is twofold: a) to define a new concept, the welfare loss that a society can experience due to the segregation of the demographic groups that comprise it and b) to quantify this phenomenon by proposing measures that satisfy a set of desirable normative properties. For that purpose, this paper offers a framework that involves, firstly, to deal with the well-being losses (gai...