Strumenti di ricerca su processi di esclusione sociale

Sociologists are by now aware that poverty affects many social spheres and not only economics itself. In the same way, widespread analytical approaches do not consider poverty a static condition but rather a process in stages with beginnings, delays and ends. For this reason, the term «social exclusion» is gradually substituting the term "poverty". Considering these aspects, this article reflects on new analytical instruments that allow a multidimensional and dynamic interpretation of this phenomenon through the identification of elements that contribute to its comprehension and to a possible combination of such aspects oriented towards the identification of Ideal Type states of the social exclusion process.