Abstract
Measuring social exclusion: social networks and long-time unemployed in Spain. Different investigations on the measurement of inequality and poverty, that have been coming developing for alread y enough a long time, offer to the social researchers a series of tools for their empirical works. Amartya Sen's investigations and designs are clear examples of the previous thing, as well as the World Bank an UNDP works. However, methodological investigations on social exclusion are more difficult to find and more complicated at the time of being raised. Graham Room's works of in the scope of the UE are important. In this work two alternatives are considered to study social exclusion: the statistical analysis of the long-time unemployed and the analysis of social networks. We introduce a synthetic vision on each one of these approaches and we explain their limitations and potentialities. We concluded with a list of general elements for the integrated study of the social exclusion.
