«Психология и социология»,
Социальная
психология
Dubina A.Y.,
student of group
IE-06B
In this work there is considered the notions and general
features of society marginalization, formed the basic features, which are
typical for modern marginal, analyzed
the peculiarities of marginalization in the conditions of globalization. A
great attention is paid to the role of marginalization in formation of the
social structure of Ukrainian society.
New sociological structure can’t appear at one moment, it is born in the depths of its previous structure as its logical conclusion. Emergence of something new results the becoming of borderline, intermediate marginal social objects. Marginalization is a sociological notion that means the intermediate state of the person between certain social groups, what has an impression on his psychology.
Many people under the notion “marginal” understand the
beggarly. But it is not always so, because sometimes marginal can be very rich.
The main is that he is on the border of different social groups and experiences
the contradictory influence of their values. He has already got out of the
previous social group and still can’t enter the next one, sometimes even with a
great amount of money. He just can’t
fit in psychologically. Marginal
is a synonym of the person whose life is “without rhyme or reason”.
The main aim of this article is to examine the key
principles and reasons of marginals’ appearing and define the character of
their influence on society.
The main feature of marginals it that they hate the world they live in but simultaneously they aspire to impose their ruling position. Marginal doesn’t reject the norms of social morality, he doesn’t know it at all.
All marginals are closely connected with the past.
They think that in the past they play more significant role in the society’s
life. But it is not always true, it is a result of the previous years’ “ideology”, in such conditions
marginals face with reality and lost their identity.
A lot of marginals nowadays represent the criminal
sphere. It is caused by the following reasons: most marginals psychologically
ready only for this system, criminal sphere always hails strangers and
alliances, marginals can take vengeance on the rest, who doesn’t except them.
There are two types of marginalization: classical or
positive and negative. Positive variant, fortunately, is the prevalent one, it means the graduate adaptation for new realities and
features. Under its influence marginals overcome the barrier and fill up new
niches in social structure of society, become more active and independent.
Negative variant means the acceleration of periphery
and transition affirmation, their declassing and parasitic way of life.
Declassing is coursed by the economic reasons, but its influence is reflected
on the social and psychological behavior of the person. This phenomenon is
well-known in our country. People consider unemployment as one of the main
problems of our society and don’t pay any attention to the fact of significant
declassing of able-bodied population. Their distinctive feature is the absence
of professional code of honor and as a result the increase of botchers and
bunglers.
Because of some certain social, economic and cultural
transformations there is a formation of the group of the ruined and lost
elements, and also anti-social group that rejects the society in general. Such
marginalization is called the natural one. Artificial type is based on the
policy of the authority. Such marginalization was the element of the
repressions and one of the main means of problem’s decision in Stalin period.
The specific of the Ukrainian society is that under
the influence of the of globalization there is a
contradictory imprint on the processes of transformation, it caused the
deepening of the social inequality and as a result leads to the negative
variant of the marginalization.
Nowadays in our society we can observe the existence
of a wide stratum of the marginals. This situation is due to the destruction of
the consciousness and values system of many Ukrainians after the disintegration
of the
Because of the influence of the societies
changes, caused by the market reforms, the part of marginals remains move
downwards to the bottom. Thanks to the marginalization there is a thick layer
of people, which like nothing and it is impossible to please them. Superficial aggression of marginals in fact hides
their weak-will, pessimistic moaner.
Marginal situation can caused nervousness,
demoralization and forming of
group protest. But at the same time marginalization is a new
source of perception
and comprehension of the world, source of informal intellectual , artistic or religious
creation. Going away for marginalism considers two routes: breaking of all
bonds and leaving for one’s own world, or graduate replacing outside the
statute.
It is a mistake to consider the marginals only from their negative side. It is a stereotype that is formed because of the society’s majority that has always tried to prove their exceptionality and rejected other outlook and norms.
Conclusions: In this work we considered the main
causes of the marginals appearing and the character of their influence at the
human’s life. Such groups of people as marginals have to
exist, but within the reasonable limits.
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