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Book SynopsisIntended to be a corrective to the literature on marginality. In addition to theoretical and methodological concerns a major theme for this volume is the combination of both theory and method towards an investigation of issues and problems that emanate from the social structure, and are closely linked to power and domination.
Table of ContentsThe Age of Marginality. (R.M. Dennis). Defining Marginality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Marginality: A Conceptual Extension. (R.J. Dunne). No Owner of Soil: Redefining the Concept of Marginality. (J.M. Billson). The Marginal Man: Evolution of a Concept. (T.H. Jenkins). Youth and Marginality. Exclusion, Civic Invisibility and Marginality; The Murders of Street Youth in Brazil. (M.K. Huggins). The Impact of Religiosity on Deviance and Criminal activity in Youth and Young Adults. (K.N. Dennis). Social capital and the Impact of Violence Among early Adolescent African-American Males. (J.B. Richardson Jr.). Marginality and the Social Construction of Ethnicity and Gender Identity. Ethnic Boundaries and Intermediaries in the resettlement of Indochinese Refugees. (J. Hein). Marginalizing the Majority: Migration and the Social Construction of Identity among Uighur Muslim Women in China. (S. Obol). Transcending "The Marginal Man": Challenging the Patriarchal Legacy of Robert E. Park. (M.J. Deegan). Class and Marginality. The Marginal Status of Teachers in an Elite School System: Secondary Education in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth - Century France. (F. Van de Poel-Knottnerus, J. D. Knottnerus). William J. Wilson's "Ghetto-Related Behaviours" Values and Poverty: A Test. (M.A. Jacob).
