Abstract
The study maintains the focus at the economic crisis in Greece, in real social terms. The research highlights the evidence between the level of education and poverty, and the impact that children of poor families are facing. The authors are focusing on the lack of social protection in single parent families, as well as the significant increase in the number of unemployed in Greece during the period of the memorandum. Moreover, the lack of an effective social state and the collapse of informal support networks increases the chances of tearing the social fabric and more families going into poverty. The study also underlines the social consequences of the economic crisis that are geared towards issues of social inclusion in societies organized in relation to values and the development of skills logic, and the inability to secure full-time jobs. The absence of social protection factors, coupled with the impact of vulnerability and risk factors, are causing poverty, unemployment, loss of rights and social support, social exclusion, discrimination, deinstitutionality, migration combined with effects on personality, developmental experiences, health of the body and soul. In Greek society, at the time of the economic crisis, there is a lack of a social protection network, and the weakening of the institution of the family. In Greece, it is necessary to approach the "new poor" in terms of politics and economy, so that they can be considered as indispensable social partners of democracy. Unprivileged social groups have to claim their rights, become part of their liberation process, and become faces of a change of personnel and social level with the ultimate goal of social transformation.
Highlights
Social inequalities, poverty and social exclusion are related to the weakening of the social protection system, the inefficient social policies, and the lowering of public spending
Each country focuses on managing its own poverty, while a feeling that immigrants are to return to their country is rising, which sometimes directs the expulsion of illegal immigrants, many of whom are trapped in long-term personal degradation and suffering
The risk of poverty and social exclusion is much higher for children living in Greece than the corresponding average of all 27 European Union countries, since the austerity policies implemented in Greece, through the Memorandum period, contributed to the increase of child poverty
Summary
Poverty and social exclusion are related to the weakening of the social protection system, the inefficient social policies, and the lowering of public spending. The surveys were mainly focused on the disadvantaged social groups of the population and the attention of the researchers was drawn on the relationship between unemployment and employment and poverty (depending on whether the head of the household is working) and the consequences of unemployment on other members of the family (Ketsetopoulou, 2005: 59-67; Coutrot & Dubar 1992; Gorz, 1997, et al.) In this period of economic crisis we are experiencing a new social situation that is not necessarily associated with particular social strata and there is a difficulty in determining the extent of the decline in the standard of living of the economically weak (Mouzelis, 2014)
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