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In this book, the late Professor Gino Germani of Harvard succeeds in illustrating the extraordinary richness of the concept of marginality, and the resulting complexity of analysis. The book operates at three related levels: descriptive, causal, and policy. Furthermore, it applies the notion of marginality to both developing and advanced societies, unlike standard studies of this topic, which have limited themselves to a Third World context. . . . [This] book gives us a comprehensive and imaginative summary of many of the key issues raised by the notion of marginality. . . . Future studies of marginality can be profitably informed, conceptually and empirically, by the results of this companion literature. --Gary Gereffi, Contemporary Sociology

-In this book, the late Professor Gino Germani of Harvard succeeds in illustrating the extraordinary richness of the concept of marginality, and the resulting complexity of analysis. The book operates at three related levels: descriptive, causal, and policy. Furthermore, it applies the notion of marginality to both developing and advanced societies, unlike standard studies of this topic, which have limited themselves to a Third World context. . . . [This] book gives us a comprehensive and imaginative summary of many of the key issues raised by the notion of marginality. . . . Future studies of marginality can be profitably informed, conceptually and empirically, by the results of this companion literature.- --Gary Gereffi, Contemporary Sociology In this book, the late Professor Gino Germani of Harvard succeeds in illustrating the extraordinary richness of the concept of marginality, and the resulting complexity of analysis. The book operates at three related levels: descriptive, causal, and policy. Furthermore, it applies the notion of marginality to both developing and advanced societies, unlike standard studies of this topic, which have limited themselves to a Third World context. . . . [This] book gives us a comprehensive and imaginative summary of many of the key issues raised by the notion of marginality. . . . Future studies of marginality can be profitably informed, conceptually and empirically, by the results of this companion literature. --Gary Gereffi, Contemporary Sociology In this book, the late Professor Gino Germani of Harvard succeeds in illustrating the extraordinary richness of the concept of marginality, and the resulting complexity of analysis. The book operates at three related levels: descriptive, causal, and policy. Furthermore, it applies the notion of marginality to both developing and advanced societies, unlike standard studies of this topic, which have limited themselves to a Third World context. . . . [This] book gives us a comprehensive and imaginative summary of many of the key issues raised by the notion of marginality. . . . Future studies of marginality can be profitably informed, conceptually and empirically, by the results of this companion literature. --Gary Gereffi, Contemporary Sociology

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