Abstract (eng)
In continuation of the German-language debate on exclusion, its understanding is to be expanded through a process-sociological supplement. Initially, the shortcomings of the debate on the development of system and inequality theoretical positions and an engagement with their theoretical starting points are examined. Still unexplored in reflecting recent developments, this work advocates for an entry point through process sociology, which, through its social theoretical foundations and its theory architecture, adequately captures the phenomenon. This enables the development of an autonomous understanding of exclusion, which functions as an objective and takes place in its outlines, emerging only from a relational view of the social. Exclusion, as a new form of marginalization, must be understood as an agglomeration process of open valences, the absence of elementary experiences of recognition, the loosening of the social fabric, and increasing distances in a configuration determined by individualization and other relevant processes, the sufficient reflection of which has been lacking so far.