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On social closure: theorising exclusion, exploitation, and elimination
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Main Author: Mackert, Jürgen 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press [2024]
Series:Oxford scholarship online
Subjects:
Marginality, Social
Assimilation (Sociology)
Social groups
Exploitation
Applied sociology
Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197781685.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197781685.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197781685.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197781685.001.0001
Abstract:In his book On Social Closure, Jürgen Mackert seeks to reinvigorate the idea of social closure and bring it back as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies and processes powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of the less powerful. To do this, he puts forward a mechanism-based explanatory approach that makes it possible to empirically study social closure through exclusion in the context of neoliberalism; exploitation within global capitalism; and elimination in the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism. Further, he identifies two critical social mechanisms to explain how human beings are denied access to resources, rights, or critical networks and to bring power dynamics into closure analysis.
Cover -- On Social Closure -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A New Approach to Social Closure -- I.1 Social Life as Collective Struggle -- I.2 Social Closure: An Almost Forgotten Theoretical Concept and Analytical Idea -- I.3 Critical Aspects of the New Approach to Social Closure -- I.4 Global Dynamics and Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival -- I.5 Social Closure: Overcoming Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Problems -- I.6 Key Issues of a New Theorizing of Closure -- I.7 Structure of the Book -- PART I THE MISGUIDED PATH OF THETHEORY OF SOCIAL CLOSURE -- 1. A Critical Discussion of the Theory of Social Closure -- 2. Frank Parkin: Social Closure as Exclusion and Usurpation -- 2.1 The Framework for an Analysis of Social Closure -- 2.1.1 The Social Closure Equation -- 2.1.2 Strategies of Social Action -- 2.1.3 Bringing the State into the Analysis of Social Closure -- 2.1.4 Closure and Exploitation -- 2.2 Social Closure as Exclusion -- 2.2.1 Private Property and Credentialism -- 2.2.2 Collectivist and Individualist Strategies of Exclusion -- 2.3 Social Closure as Usurpation -- 2.4 Dual Closure -- 3. Raymond Murphy: Rules, Structures, and Forms of Social Closure -- 3.1 Elaborating on (Neo-​)Weberian Closure Theory -- 3.2 A Model for the Analysis of Social Closure -- 3.3 A Conceptual Framework for Closure Theory -- 3.4 The Rationalization of Closure -- 4. Critical Shortcomings of the Theory of Social Closure -- 4.1 Closure: A Concept in a Procrustean Bed -- 4.1.1 Closure as an Economically Restricted Concept -- 4.1.2 The Two Sides of the Social Closure Equation -- 4.1.3 Closure as Teleological: Towards an Iron Cage of Closure -- 4.2 The Lack of Group Action -- 4.3 Power: A Missing Concept -- 4.4 Methodology: A Dead End.
"The book presents an entirely new approach to the theory and analysis of social closure that provides a sociological tool for analysing the three critical forms of closure in the world today: exclusion in the context of neoliberalism; exploitation/"new slavery" in the context of global capitalism; and elimination in the context of the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism. The approach moves social closure from a descriptive approach to an explanatory concept that transcends society-centred, Eurocentric, or Western-centred analyses of processes of social closure"--
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ISBN:9780197781708
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197781685.001.0001

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