On Social Closure

Theorizing Exclusion, Exploitation, and Elimination

AvJürgen Mackert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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On Social Closure reinvigorates the idea of social closure as a basic sociological concept for understanding the strategies powerful groups use to improve their life chances at the expense of the less powerful. Jürgen Mackert provides sociological tools for analysing three critical forms of closure in the world today: exclusion in the context of neoliberalism; exploitation within global capitalism; and elimination in the ongoing legacy of settler colonialism, thereby transcending Eurocentric analyses. Mackert puts forward a mechanism-based explanatory approach identifies two critical social mechanisms that operate in various kinds of social closure struggles. The first explains how human beings, social groups, or communities are denied access to resources, rights, or critical networks, while the second explains how the powerful exert control that leaves the less powerful vulnerable and unable to fight back. Through a critical reconsideration and revision of existing concepts and by bringing in new ones, Jürgen Mackert develops a novel theoretical approach to social closure.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-24
Mått:167 x 238 x 27 mm
Vikt:703 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197781685

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Jürgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary professor for the 'structure of modern societies' at the University of Erfurt (2004/05) and a visiting professor of political sociology at Humboldt University (2008/09).

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Bridging a classical locus of social theory, Mackert produces a new and robust theory of social closure that contributes to the growth of a genuinely global theory. The book breaks solid ground for our understanding of the effects of capitalism and the resilience of colonial formations. Mackert's ability to connect empirical and historical analysis with refined and very clear conceptual and theoretical steps is prodigious and unparalleled.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: A New Approach to Social Closure Part I: The Misguided Path of the "Theory of Social Closure" Chapter 1: A Critical Discussion of The Theory of Social Closure Chapter 2: Frank Parkin: Social Closure as Exclusion and Usurpation Chapter 3: Raymond Murphy: Rules, Structures, and Forms of Social Closure Chapter 4: Critical Shortcomings of the Theory of Social Closure Chapter 5: Going Beyond the Theory of Social Closure Part II: Basic Terms, Concepts and Methodology for Closure Theory Chapter 6: Reconsidering, Problematizing, and Introducing Critical Concepts for Closure Theory Reconsidering Max Weber's Approach Chapter 7: Max Weber's Critical Basic Terms for Theorizing Social Closure Reconsidered Chapter 8: Max Weber's Closure Analyses: Three Contexts Chapter 9: Beyond Max Weber: Towards a New Idea of Social Closure New Concepts for Closure Theory Chapter 10: "Group Action" and "Acting in Solidarity" Chapter 11: Power in Closure Analysis Chapter 12: "Life Chances/Chances of Survival": The Real Goal of Closure Struggles Chapter 13: Discussion Part III: Theorizing Social Closure Chapter 14: A New Approach to Social Closure Conceptualization Chapter 15: Three Forms of Social Closure Chapter 16: Power and Social Closure Chapter 17: A New Concept of "Life-Chances/Chances of Survival" in the Opportunity Structure Chapter 18: Reorganizing Relations of Social Closure: The Two Critical Mechanisms "Denial of Access" and "Intervention into Community Closure" Chapter 19: A New Concept of Social Closure Typology Chapter 20: A Typology of Social Closure Explanation Chapter 21: Towards an Explanation of Social Closure Chapter 22: Explaining Social Closure Chapter 23: The Explanatory Logics of Social Closure Conclusion: Social Closure and the Global Struggle for Life Chances/Chances of Survival References Index