Marginality as a socio-cultural phenomenon

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of marginality as a sociocultural phenomenon. Due to the fact that, at the present time, in the period of the formation of new social forces and relations, many societies, including Kazakhstan, to one degree or another, experience a value-normative vacuum, it is during this period that the process of marginalization sharply intensifies and expands into its scale. Marginal individuals in the conditions of the formation of new guidelines are deprived of stable social orientations, it is very difficult for them to identify themselves with sufficient certainty and clarity. The marginal state is characterized by the fact that a person, having left one culture, leaving it on the outer plane of his being, does not fit into a new culture for him, does not come to it, although he lives in the presence of countless manifestations of it. The individual is at the stage of mastering new cultural features, but still cannot master them. Such is the paradoxical nature of marginality as a transitional, borderline socio-cultural state. As a rule, it is during transitional epochs that the process of marginalization sharply intensifies and expands in its scope. People feel insecure and social instability. In this regard, the purpose of this article was the need for a deeper study of the problem of marginality. Based on the study of the problem of marginality, we can conclude that the individual and the diverse, the whole and the particular, the universal and the singular converge in the
individual. In this regard, the problem of marginalization should be addressed through personal selfdetermination. In writing this article, the works of philosophers,  sociologists and educators who studied the problems of marginality were considered. The article proposes a number of recommendations for solving the problem of marginality in the new realities.