Description
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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A New Approach to Social ClosurePart I: The Misguided Path or the "Theory of Social Closure"Chapter 1: A Critical Discussion of The Theory of Social ClosureChapter 2: Frank Parkin: Social Closure as Exclusion and UsurpationChapter 3: Raymond Murphy: Rules, Structures, and Forms of Social ClosureChapter 4: Critical Shortcomings of the Theory of Social ClosureChapter 5: Going Beyond the Theory of Social ClosurePart II: Basic Terms, Concepts and Methodology for Closure TheoryChapter 6: Reconsidering, Problematizing, and Introducing Critical Concepts for Closure TheoryReconsidering Max Weber's ApproachChapter 7: Max Weber's Critical Basic Terms for Theorizing Social Closure ReconsideredChapter 8: Max Weber's Closure Analyses: Three ContextsChapter 9: Beyond Max Weber: Towards a New Idea of Social ClosureNew Concepts for Closure TheoryChapter 10: "Group Action" and "Acting in Solidarity"Chapter 11: Power in Closure AnalysisChapter 12: "Life Chances/Chances of Survival": The Real Goal of Closure StrugglesChapter 13: DiscussionPart III: Theorizing Social ClosureChapter 14: A New Approach to Social ClosureConceptualizationChapter 15: Three Forms of Social ClosureChapter 16: Power and Social ClosureChapter 17: A New Concept of "Life-Chances/Chances of Survival" in the Opportunity StructureChapter 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 TypologyChapter 20: A Typology of Social ClosureExplanationChapter 21: Towards an Explanation of Social ClosureChapter 22: Explaining Social ClosureChapter 23: The Explanatory Logics of Social ClosureConclusion: Social Closure and the Global Struggle for Life Chances/Chances of SurvivalReferencesIndex
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