This essay will be focusing on socio-economic factors that influences social exclusion in the society. This essay will be raising concerns about age and disabilities, which have been use as a tool in the society to exclude people from achieving their aims and objective in the society they belong to. Ageism, or discriminating against people purely on the grounds of their chronological age, is deeply embedded and very widespread in our society. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4041713.stm. Said Baroness Sally Greengross 2003. The elderly have been stigmatised, stereotype and isolated due to their age. However, there could be some employers that can still manage to accept them considering their age as an experience will enable them to contribute their best to their establishment. Disabilities in both the elderly and the youth have also generated discriminating attitude towards the visual impaired people. They are considered as blind and unable to function properly when giving a job to do. Sociology is the study of society and the elements that make up the society, it was first discovered by Comte in 1834 his aim was to establish science that deals with the society, where social laws will looked at as fundamental issue. The application of sociology was meet to trace changes from past to present and the future to come to enable find ways to attain beneficial goals. Looking into today society, there are numbers of perspectives on how the society maintain itself, where there is a need for a state of equilibrium. Stability of the society was the first issue the sociologist looked into followed by the biological aspect and the importance of education. Some of the perspective sociologist includes: Functionalist Comte and Durkheim, interpreting each part of the society and their contribution to promote the stability of the society. They also believe that all parts of the society depends on each other and they are been held together by social consensus which the society agreed upon. Other perspectives such as Marxism, where Karl based his ideal on 2 different classes in a Capitalist society, these are A.