Abstract
The article studies marginals’ role in socio-cultural dynamics. The author argues that marginalization, minimal in the traditional society and increasing in the transitional periods of history, can contribute to both the upward and downward dynamics of the society. On the one hand, marginalization provides for variability and renewal of culture. On the other hand, it becomes a factor of destabilization, when social groups that are limited in their ability to realize themselves using conventional methods are forced to create new mechanisms for their self-realization, including illegal ones.
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