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Over de situering van marginaliteit: een bijdrage tot de theorie van randverschijnselen

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Abstract

Perspectives on marginality. A contribution to the theory of marginal phenomena - The aim of the present article is to demonstrate that marginality cannot be exclusively approached as a policy problem subjected to historical description. Rather, it deserves our attention as a cognitive problem with a social dimension. In advocating the latter view the author, taking as his example the French historian Fernand Braudel, distinguishes three angles from which historical research, more particularly that concerned with marginality, can be approached, viz. the event-based, conjunctural and structural perspectives, the last of which has been relegated to the background all too often in historical research. Yet, it is historico-sociological insights, more than anything else, which are likely to lead to a better understanding of marginal phenomena.

How to Cite:

Kruithof, C., (1990) “Over de situering van marginaliteit: een bijdrage tot de theorie van randverschijnselen”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 35(1), 58–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95033