SOCIAL EXCLUSION PRACTICES: THEORETICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON A CAMP OF STUDIES

The economic, social, technological and cultural transformations that took place during the modern era constituted a field of tension between, the valuation of individuality in the political plane and the emergence of new subjectivities and, the tendency towards normalization, homogenization and management of such subjectivities. Within this scenario, social exclusion practices, of those subjects that do not conform to the positively valued standards, are transformed and are more sophisticated. This paper aims to present a theoretical-epistemological reflection on the current relevance of social exclusion studies. Three perspectives are examined: the theory of the exclusion/inclusion dialectic, the approach of exclusion from studies on social interaction and the possibility of a psychology of exclusion based on the theory of intersubjective recognition. Finally, we recognize the transdisciplinary character of social exclusion, from a psychosocial perspective.