Marginality and Modernity
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Marginality and Modernity

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Marginality and Modernity

About this book

This book traces the major stages in the evolution of the sociological concept of marginality, highlighting in particular the contribution made by Gino Germani. Its purpose is to analyse, starting with the sociological theory of the early 1960s, the progressive maturation of the scientific status of the concept of marginality, and to test the theoretical premise that gave rise to Germani's theory of marginality.The author begins by examining the contribution of the Chicago School. He explores the complex relationship between the theory of marginality and modernization by analysing North American theses and the criticisms mainly generated in Latin America. The goal is to reconstruct Germani's theoretical model of marginality, addressing its application to contemporary social and economic conditions.Giardiello's analysis is intertwined with two themes that are central to Germani's thought about marginality. The first concerns the origin of the concept of social exclusion within sociological thought. The second shows how marginality is clearly a phenomenology connected to the contradictions of modernity. Germani's paradigm of marginality enables the social scientist to resolve the contradictions between the analytical perspectives that deal with marginality in an objective way and the one that observes it subjectively.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781412862721
eBook ISBN
9781351507004
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Sociological Status of Marginality: The Contribution of the Chicago School
  7. 2 Structural Functionalism and Parsons: The Relevance of Social Order and the Limitation of Marginality
  8. 3 Merton and Functionalism: The Return to Marginality Studies
  9. 4 The Contribution of Sociology of the Second Postwar Period to Marginality Studies, with Particular Reference to Latin America
  10. 5 The Concept of Modernization according to Germani and the Study of Marginality
  11. 6 Marginality, the Structural Phenomenology of Modernization
  12. 7 The Paradigm of Marginality: A Descriptive Analysis
  13. 8 Descriptive Dynamics of the Multidimensional Level of Marginality
  14. 9 The Paradigm of Marginality: From Analyses of Typologies to the Process of Operationalization
  15. 10 The Paradigm of Marginality: Explanatory Analysis
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index