Two Sides of the Coin: The Link Between Relational Exclusion and Socioeconomic Exclusion

• DOI: 10.17645/si.v9i4.4526
• Publication Date: 2021-12-15T10:45:29Z
• Authors: Verónica De Migue...; Livia García‐Faroldi
• Keywords: Social Exclusion; Social status; Social Mobility; Embeddedness; Disadvantage; Prestige; Occupational prestige

Social capital, derived from the individual embeddedness in a net of personal relationships that gives access to pool potential resources, is crucial understanding how some people experience higher risk falling into social exclusion. In this article, we related compositional and structural factors egocentered networks various measures on economic deprivation We considered different explanatory dimensions: ego’s sociodemographic characteristics capital. capital was measured both terms expressive instrumental support, took account network size, strong ties density, alters’ average job prestige, differentiating between inherited achieved distinction has deserved little attention so far. used data Spanish General Survey 2013 (N = 5,094), nationally representative database not applied for similar purposes up present. Results show exclusion are associated with ascribed characteristics, at micro level (individual) meso (network). At level, women, immigrants, young people, less‐educated unemployed, those who do trust others have estimated values variables regards disadvantage. lower occupational prestige relationships, fewer contacts obtaining or medical help (but more childcare) smaller non‐kin core discussion networks. familistic society limited welfare system, results disentangle dependence their own resources.