Tag: Marginal Man

  • The Problem of the Marginal Man American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 1 (July 1935) Pages 1-12 DOI: 10.1086/217001 Everett V. Stonequist (1901-1979), Professor of Sociology Skidmore College The marginal man arises in a bi-cultural or multi-cultural situation.  The natural desire of the mixed-blood is to advance toward the group occupying the higher status.  He…

  • Multiracial Self-Identification and Adolescent Outcomes: A Social Psychological Approach to the Marginal Man Theory Social Forces Volume 88, Number 1 (September 2009) ISSN: 1534-7605 Print ISSN: 0037-7732 DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0243 Simon Cheng, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut Kathryn J. Lively, Associate Professor, Sociology Dartmouth College Recent public health research has consistently reported that self-identified multiracial adolescents…

  • A ‘Marginal Man’ is a fictional archetype created in 1927 by sociologist Robert Ezra Park (1864-1944) (and further developed by Everett Stonequist (1901-1979)) as a way  to describe a person descended from two “opposing” ethnic or racial groups.  He stated, “The marginal man…is one whom fate has condemned to live in two societies and in two, not…