Structural social closure is violence when sources of inaccessibility stay unacknowledged

Evidence

One property of social relations on which effective norms depend is what I will call closure. In general, one can say that a necessary but not sufficient condition for the emergence of effective norms is action that imposes external effects on others — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 114 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Targeted influence structurally requires that its targets remain unaware — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 963; Maldistribution cannot be cured without prior social and structural recognition — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 89; Structural exclusion that hides its own mechanisms constitutes violence — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Closure in social relations is necessary for effective norms to emerge #complicates (0.78) — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 114