Unemployment and social exclusion

The present MA paper aims to analyse one of the most important objects of the governmental social politics – social exclusion as a result of long-term unemployment. Social exclusion is understood as human rights violations existing in society for certain groups of people, involuntary (or voluntary) remoteness from social, economical and cultural values, as well as the break of social contacts. An overcome of social exclusion is related to the governmental social security politics. Despite the fact that this process depends on the three main groups of factors – legal political, social economical and cultural psychological factor, special attention should be paid to unemployment, which is one of the main reasons of social exclusion. In case of loss of job, a person loses the possibility to satisfy his or her communication and self-expression needs. The proposed hypothesis of the present MA paper is that the passive support means for the unemployed are dominant in Lithuania. These means make the problem of the social exclusion even deeper and they do not encourage the unemployed (especially the ones who have been unemployed for a long time) to search for job. This paper aims to summarise the specific character of the social exclusion, which was caused by unemployment during the period of independence in Lithuania. Moreover, the paper deals with the influence of the social support in case of unemployment and strives to state its differences in cities and countryside.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta