His book, "'The Marginal Man "', called attention to the problems experienced by people making transitions between different cultures, and specifically to pressures felt by minority and ethnic group members in American society.
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The boy, regarded as a pariah in Brahmin society because of his mixed parentage, becomes an impoverished immigrant in London, subject to racial and class prejudice, a marginal man trying to emulate the bohemian ways of his new friends.
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Stonequist's sociological work on marginality builds on that of his chief mentor at Chicago, Robert E . Park . " " R . E . Park . . . [ was ] Stonequist's teacher and the originator of the term marginal man ""
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He described the marginal man as " one who is poised in psychological uncertainty between two or more social worlds, reflecting in his soul the discords and harmonies, repulsions and attractions of these worlds . " Stonequist's study examines representative types of marginal persons . ""
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"' Marginal man "'or "'marginal man theory "'is a sociological concept first developed by sociologists Robert Ezra Park ( 1864 1944 ) and Everett Stonequist ( 1901 1979 ) to explain how an individual suspended between two cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity.
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"' Marginal man "'or "'marginal man theory "'is a sociological concept first developed by sociologists Robert Ezra Park ( 1864 1944 ) and Everett Stonequist ( 1901 1979 ) to explain how an individual suspended between two cultural realities may struggle to establish his or her identity.
