"Social exclusion" processes establish a range of historically determined references within the economic internationalization under neoliberal orientation. These processes have been studied and presented in a diffuse way by Social Science and, above all, by economic analyses and policies. This approach, however, reduces the heuristic and the interdisciplinary potential to discuss the question. My purpose here is to stimulate debate on how to rescue this potential, based on the conception that "social exclusion" makes a new form of social control and reduces the potential for subjectness, on behalf of the supremacy of the Westernizing model historically imposed by capitalism development.
social exclusion; social control; poverty; autonomy; solidarity