Developmental paths of marginal personality

Marginality
French sociologist A. Farge: «Marginality is not a state of autonomy, but a result of conflict with social norms»; ​​and marginal person «is similar to all, identical to them and at the same time he is a cripple among his kind - a man with chopped off roots, cut into pieces in the very heart of his native culture and environment»

The objective of the research is to determine the essential characteristics of experiencing marginal state and to define and describe the most possible developmental paths of marginal personality.

For the society it is important if any marginal person or group constitute a danger to the public.

English anthropologist W. Turner: « Liminality, marginality and inferior position in the structure are the conditions when myths, symbols, rituals, philosophical systems and works of art are often born»

The state of marginality can be viewed both in a negative and
positive ways.
1. Marginality can be seen as a hindrance for intercultural and other types of communication.

2. Marginality may become a catalyst of successful intercultural and other types of interaction: in case when marginal person positively accepts his specialty of existing on the fringes of both cultures at the same time.

two ways:
assimilation
(complete dissolution, loss of individual traits and replacing them with borrowed from another culture)
integration
(maintaining cultural identity while establishing contacts and immersing in a new environment)