not uncommon to hear that people are free from most of the usual stereotypes and dependencies, referred to as "marginal".Meaning many people could put in a blind alley, as under the concept can get the homeless, immigrants, intellectual freelancers, the oligarchs of the new wave.It is completely different population, different people.What unites them?Who belongs to the marginalized?
Man "overboard»
For some reason these individuals, social strata and groups are "overboard" because it does not fit within the dominant society for a certain socio-cultural norms and traditions.It turns out that a marginals include any person who on his own or against it avoids the usual facilities or denies their lives are not like everyone else, not poured into society.Originality, inability to communicate, a special craving for solitude and immediately put some personality behind the edge of the usual kind of boundaries.
Consider that represents the word "marginal".According to the interpretation of encyclopedic dictionaries, a person who is on the border of different social systems, cultures, groups, and feel the impact of conflicting rules, norms and values.Synonymous with this concept is considered lumpen element, which includes representatives of the social "bottom".
So, if you're one of the inherent characteristics such as originality, inability to communicate, a special craving for solitude, you're kind of edge you get the usual boundaries, you're marginal.Who is it - "living on the roadside," or "cultural hybrid"?How to divide people "outside" - on marginal higher and lower levels?At the same time the first includes those who have left the lower classes and remains at high levels, while the second - those who are degraded or, on the contrary,
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«Living on the sidelines»
People living not as everyone who ignore social standards, but do not go beyond the legal field, - fringe.Meaning it does not mean anything offensive, it rather indicates that those in the minority.For the first time, the term became widespread in the early XX century.He applied the Chicago School of sociology researcher Robert Park.It was made in one of his essays titled "Human migration and marginal man" against immigrants in North America, not found application in a new country that has not accepted the new rules and continue to adhere to their traditions.
All shades of meaning
Pre-history of occurrence of the term can be considered the concept of "intermediate element" used in studies of immigrant groups living in the urban social organization.They described the situation of individuals, on the border ekvilibriruyuschih completely different cultures, and the consequences of their unsuitability in the new society. these immigrants first and christened a name like outcasts.Meaning eventually acquired new shades.His peculiar vagueness has contributed some confusion in understanding the meaning of the term.So we began to call people outside the usual society, people with physical or mental imprint of ailments.
What does the word "marginal" missing in Ozhegov, Brockhaus and Efron, TSB?In some sources you can find a single rooted etymology of the word "marginalia" - marks or headers made at the field journal, books or other printed product.Later in the "Soviet Encyclopedia" appears the word "marginal", meaning an intermediate position of the individual in a particular society.
in modern Russian identity, social strata and groups that are on the "roadside", beyond the specific characteristic of the structural divisions of society, tradition, referred to as marginal.Meaning rather vague, but recently quite fashionable.
«extrasystemic»
concept of the word "marginal" for a non-judgmental.It is located on the border between "good" and "bad."After all, what is now perceived as beyond the scope of tomorrow may well enter into it, or may not enter, remain "outside" of the social structure.
positive and negative marginalism
word "marginal" can be analyzed in two ways: positive and negative.After all, the values inherent in the "outboard" of the person need not resist all resist the philistine.They may very well complement it.
margin is often regarded as a "Crank".Serious human fascination with classical music from among businessmen making it among fellow countries, especially since there are rarely traded value of high art.In his company, he is in the minority.And these people who feel like strangers in their midst, in the history of a lot.This Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn, A. Einstein, Thomas Mann and many other famous personalities.Many of their ideas were not understood and not accepted by his contemporaries, but were highly appreciated in the future.Impossible to list all the names, but the uniqueness of these individuals always creates favorable conditions for the occurrence of unexpected, original and unreported cases.
A is marginal, that most hamper the development.Because of their low intellectual abilities, they can not adapt to conventional conditions, it is easier to deny the established norms of conduct and anti-social lifestyle.
Understanding the phenomenon of marginality increasingly trying to interpret within the negative attitude.And you can philosophize and try to find the line between extraordinary manifestation of everyman personality and habitual perception of the word "marginal", which is quite difficult.
