Jürgen Mackert

On Social Closure (eBook, ePUB)

Theorizing Exclusion, Exploitation, and Elimination

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197781708
• Artikelnr.: 72259918

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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