social closure

is the action of social groups who maximize their own advantage by restricting access to rewards (usually economic opportunities) to their members thus closing access to outsiders.

Social Closure. Used by M. Weber to describe the action of social groups who maximize their own advantage by restricting access to rewards (usually economic opportunities) to their members thus closing access to outsiders, this term was re-introduced into the modem analysis of social class by F. Parkin (1974... 1979) who treats closure as an aspect of the distribution of power between classes. Parkin identifies strategies of exclusion, by which collectivities with privileged access to rewards attempt to exclude outsiders and pass on privileges to their own kind, and usurpation, by which outsiders, often organized collectively, try to win a greater share of resources. See: Caste... Class... Profession. (')

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social closure