MEANING
Preventing particular people or things from being included, admitted, or able to participate.
Use it for
identifying rules that prevent participation; analyzing how institutional practices keep groups outside; distinguishing exclusionary mechanisms from unequal outcomes aloneIdentifies practices that keep people or things out, rather than merely noting that participation is unequal. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- exclusionary practices
- exclusionary policies
- exclusionary criteria
On the page
The admissions rule had exclusionary effects even though its wording did not name a social group.
The analysis traces exclusionary practices through apparently routine decisions about eligibility.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- exclusionary
Usage notes
Usually attributive. More exclusionary is natural when comparing degree; no ordinary -er/-est forms. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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