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Social Closure - The Theory of Monopolization and Exclusion (Hardcover)
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Social Closure - The Theory of Monopolization and Exclusion (Hardcover)
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The development and inequalities of society have traditionally been
analysed in terms of stratification and class. Raymond Murphy
argues that important inequalities of power remain unanalysed by
traditional social theories, and that the concept of social
closure, suggested by Max Weber, provides a means of capturing the
common and essential features of types of subordination that appear
quite different on the surface. Seemingly unrelated forms of
domination based on private property, the bureaucratic Communist
Party, credentials, status, race, language, and gender, are tied
together by Weber's notion of social closure as the underlying
principle of all systems of inequality in power. The book suggests
improvements to the conceptions of closure, power, and social
class, and turns closure theory back on itself to analyse the
scholarly field. It develops a conceptualization of the rules of
social closure and their transformation, and compares the Weberian
concept of closure with the Marxian concept of exploitation.
Raymond Murphy examines the way in which Western society, in the
elusive pursuit of mastery and control, has transformed its codes
of social closure by the process of formal rationalization. He
shows how this formal rationalization of monopolization and
exclusion has led to substantively irrational results. Professor
Murphy's conclusion - that Weber's theories of social closure and
rationalization provide a conceptual basis for going beyond a
narrow focus on one particular means of monopolization to an
analysis of monopolization and exclusion per se - marks an
important and original advance in the development of the ideas of
Weber and in social theory generally.
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