Typy marginesowości w społeczeństwach i ich rola

• Authors: Neyman Elzbieta

Title variants

EN

THE TYPES OF SOCIAL MARGINALITY IN SOCIETIES AND THEIR ROLE IN SOCIAL CHANGE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to the social margin's role in the process of social change. The author aims at defining the concept of marginality and suggesting a typology of social marginality on the basis of social and cultural criteria. She distinguishes social marginality, cultural marginality and socio-cultural marginality. Additionally, she describes psychological marginality as a separate type. Social marginality is typical of people sharing larger society's values but performing only irregular functions in this society. Cultural marginality is characteristic of a group whose values are different than these of the larger society but which performs regular functions in this society. The author emphasizes the potential for incurring change that marginal groups possess: this potential could result in creative impulses or in destruction depending on the configuration of marginality and historical context. The following adaptive reactions of a marginal group could be distinguished: conformism, innovation, ritualization, retreatism or rebellion.

Keywords

EN

CULTURAL MARGINALITY; ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL MARGINALITY; VALUES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 1(200)
• Pages: 93-116
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Neyman Elzbieta

• Elzbieta Neyman, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA093429