Erschienen in:
01.10.2008
Editorial: Living on the Margin
verfasst von:
Masood Zangeneh
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
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Ausgabe 4/2008
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Excerpt
The concept of marginalization is a useful guide to explore, underline, recognize, and eventually change processes by which social relations shape and preserve boundaries that could lead to mental disorders and addictions. Marginalization is the social process of becoming or being excluded, which evokes a dynamic between two social forces: mainstream groups and the peripheral groups, where the mainstream is generally associated with dominance and privilege while the periphery with relative powerlessness. Marginalization is often based on such concepts as gender, culture, sexual orientation, religion, or socioeconomic position, and leads to social inequality where an individual or a group of people are excluded from certain social rights such as voting, ownership, access to education, health care and other social goods. In this issue, several papers are presented to examine this concept from various analytical points of view. …
