Social exclusion: social groups on the periphery during the transitional period

The author reviews the most important sociological schools that could be considered as a theoretical background for the examination of social exclusion. She also examines the process of elaborating social indicators that can be used for measuring exclusion. Furthermore, the study follows the shaping of the situation of socially excluded groups during the last one and a half decades after the change of the regime. She stresses the need of reform in socio-political planning on a regional level.