On social closure : theorizing exclusion, exploitation, and elimination / Jürgen Mackert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mackert, Jürgen, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Social mobility.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In his text '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.

Contents:

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.

5. Going Beyond the Theory of Social Closure

PART II BASIC TERMS, CONCEPTS, ANDMETHODOLOGY FOR CLOSURE THEORY

6. Reconsidering, Problematizing, and Introducing Critical Concepts for Closure Theory

RECONSIDERING MAX WEBER'S APPROACH

7. Max Weber's Critical Basic Terms for Theorizing Social Closure Reconsidered

7.1 The Ontological Idea: Social Life as Struggle

7.2 Communal and Associative Relationships

7.3 Open and Closed Relationships

8. Max Weber's Closure Analyses: Three Contexts

8.1 The Economic Relationships of Communities

8.2 The Distribution of Power within the Community

8.3 Relations between Ethnic Groups

9. Beyond Max Weber: Towards a New Idea of Social Closure

NEW CONCEPTS FOR CLOSURE THEORY

10. Group Action and Acting in Solidarity

11. Power in Closure Analysis

11.1 Heinrich Popitz: Processes and Mechanisms of Organizing Power

11.1.1 Premises of Conceptualizing Power

11.1.2 The Concept of Power

11.1.3 Power Formation

11.1.4 Discussion

11.2 Anthony Giddens: Socio-​Theoretical Considerations of Power

11.2.1 Agency

11.2.2 Structure: Rules and Resources

11.2.3 Duality of Structure

11.2.4 Discussion

11.3 Michael Mann: The Social Sources of Power

11.3.1 Ideological Power

11.3.2 Economic Power

11.3.3 Military Power

11.3.4 Political Power

11.3.5 Discussion

11.4 Elements of a New Concept of Power for Social Closure

12. Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival: The Real Goal of Closure Struggles

12.1 A Critical Idea but Rudimentary Concept

12.1.1 Life Chances and Chances of Survival in Weber's Closure Analyses

12.2 Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival and the Opportunity Structure

12.2.1 Life Chances as Related to the Opportunity Structure

13. Discussion

PART III THEORIZING SOCIAL CLOSURE

14. A New Approach to Social Closure.

CONCEPTUALIZATION

15. Three Forms of Social Closure

16. Power and Social Closure

16.1 Power, Contexts, and Social Relations

16.2 Structural Elements of Resources of Power in Closure Struggles

17. A New Concept of Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival in the Opportunity Structure

17.1 The Dynamics of the Opportunity Structure

17.2 Dimensions of Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival

18. Reorganizing Relations of Social Closure: The Two Critical Mechanisms Denial of Access and Intervention into Community Closure

19. A New Concept of Social Closure

TYPOLOGY

20. A Typology of Social Closure

EXPLANATION

21. Towards an Explanation of Social Closure

21.1 The Critical Role of Events

21.2 The Explanatory Model: Strategies, Mechanisms, Outcomes

22. Explaining Social Closure

22.1 Analysing and Explaining the Reorganization of Social Relations of Exclusion

22.1.1 Context: Neoliberalism and Marketization

22.1.2 Event and Principal Strategy

22.1.3 Mobilizing Predominantly Politico-​Legal Structural Elements of Power

22.1.4 The Politics of Austerity as a Strategy of Social Closure: Processes and Mechanisms

22.1.5 Outcomes, Stabilization, and Legitimation

22.2 Analysing and Explaining the Reorganization of Social Relations of Exploitation

22.2.1 Context: The Capitalism-​Slavery Nexus

22.2.2 Event and Principal Strategy

22.2.3 Mobilizing Predominantly Economic Structural Elements of Power

22.2.4 Global Labour Value Chains as a Strategy of Social Closure: Processes and Mechanisms

22.2.5 Outcomes, Stabilization, and Legitimation

22.3 Analysing and Explaining the Reorganization of Social Relations of Elimination

22.3.1 Context: Settler Colonialism

22.3.2 Events and Principal Strategy.

22.3.3 Mobilizing Predominantly Ideological and Military/​Violence Structural Elements of Power

22.3.4 The Politics of Erasure as a Strategy of Social Closure: Processes and Mechanisms

22.3.5 Outcomes, Stabilization, and Legitimation

23. The Explanatory Logic of Social Closure

Conclusion: Social Closure and the Global Struggle for Life Chances /​ Chances of Survival

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 6, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197781715

0197781713

9780197781692

0197781691

9780197781708

0197781705

OCLC:

1454984258