INTRODUCTION INCLUSION OF MINORITY GROUPS AND TRANSITION Hasan Jashari, South East European University, Tetovo, The idea to write this paper was a result of several fundamental reasons: 1. The inclusion in post-industrial society is a fundamental problem of man­kind, and to a grater extend shapes the social life of the people. 2. There is a realistic dilemma whether the social inclusion in Macedonia is lagging behind within the whole process of transformation of society, and the establishment of the system of social justice. 3. Two realities of the inclusion. 4. Layering of society where there is one thin layer of rich and middle class, and significantly number of lower layers consisting of unemployed, people with low classification structure, beneficiaries of social help, retired, sick… 5. Is there presently in Macedonia, along with the minority groups- such as Roma, many other unequal who are at risk, possibly rural or ageing peo­ple? Whether inclusion under our circumstances is an illusion? Nowadays all the countries pay great attention to the social inclusion. This process implies a range of measures by the states, and a continuous process but always insufficiently successful: to eliminate obstacles so that all the people have access to social goods, institutions and infrastructure of the state, local community under equal conditions. Whether in Macedonia, in a situation of society in crisis, attention is paid to this problem? Whether, in a situation when poverty is in rise, we also have rise in inclusion? Those are ongoing dilemmas that affect not only different groups, who in one way or another, suffer social negligence and exclusion, but also an opinion prevails among these social layers that they are left on their own. It is a fact that what has been regulated by laws is not implemented in practice. Inclusion-Theoretical Model The problem of inclusion is not local; it is a problem of the civilisation. The Afri­can Americans, Burakumins in Japan, Shudra in India, Kurds in Turkey, Roma and 189