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Marginal man or marginal man theory is a sociological concept first developed by sociologists Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944) and Everett Stonequist (1901–1979) to explain how an individual suspended between two cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity.
This chapter focuses on Park's seminal concept of the “marginal man,” originally presented in his 1928 article “Human Migration and the Marginal Man” and later elaborated in the 1937 book The Marginal Man by Park's student Everett Verner Stonequist (1901– 79), who earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1930.
Tra le sue opere più conosciute: Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921), La città (1925), Human Migration and the Marginal Man (1928), Race relations and the Race Problem; a Definition and an Analysis (1939), Human Communities: the City and Human Ecology (1955).
This essay focuses on Park’s seminal concept of the “marginal man,” originally presented in his 1928 article “Human Migration and the Marginal Man” and later elaborated in the 1937 book The Marginal Man by Park’s student Everett Verner Stonequist (1901–1979), who earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1930.
8 ago 2012 · Robert E. Park’s concept of the marginal man has been a remarkably fruitful source of intellectual stimulation in American sociology over the past eight decades; in this respect the 1928 essay in which he originally presented the concept surely qualifies as a sociological classic.
14 set 2015 · Marginality is a rich and nuanced concept. The term marginal comes from the Latin, “marginalis,” and is in reference to an edge or border. In my discipline (Sociology), we trace the concept to ...
19 mag 2022 · This is the ‘marginal man’. It is in the mind of the marginal man that the conflicting cultures meet and fuse. ( Park, 1928, p. 881) On a similar note, Stonequist ( 1937) argued that the social and cultural conflict between different communities leads to a marginal situation for their members.
