Marginality and modernity / Mauro Giardiello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giardiello, Mauro, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Sociology--History.

Sociology.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 180 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

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 analyze, 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 analyzing 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Sociological Status of Marginality: The Contribution of the Chicago School 1

2 Structural Functionalism and Parsons: The Relevance of Social Order and the Limitation of Marginality 23

3 Merton and Functionalism: The Return to Marginality Studies 41

4 The Contribution of Sociology of the Second Postwar Period to Marginality Studies, with Particular Reference to Latin America 55

5 The Concept of Modernization according to Germani and the Study of Marginality 87

6 Marginality, the Structural Phenomenology of Modernization 99

7 The Paradigm of Marginality: A Descriptive Analysis 107

8 Descriptive Dynamics of the Multidimensional Level of Marginality 117

9 The Paradigm of Marginality: From Analyses of Typologies to the Process of Operationalization 139

10 The Paradigm of Marginality: Explanatory Analysis 145.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Giardiello, Mauro, author. Marginality and modernity

ISBN:

9781412862721

1412862728

OCLC:

932172143