A marginal person is outside the system.
Marginal is that or that belonging to or relating to the margin (extremity or edge of a thing). The marginal is on the edge, that is, it is not part of what is central or what is most important.
A marginal issue has secondary or little importance . For example: «The president will not talk about marginal issues that have no relevance within the framework of problems to be discussed at the conference» , «The agreement with Bolivia was a marginal achievement in an agenda that was not very successful for the government» , « López's goal was a marginal event in a match comfortably dominated by the visiting team .
Living outside of social norms
Said of a subject or a social group, marginal is someone who lives or acts outside of social norms , either by own will or due to force majeure.
On many occasions, marginality is associated with crime and being outside the law , although the concept can also be used to name those who live in poverty , those who have been marginalized: "Three marginalized people beat a teenager to steal his money." wallet" , "An old woman was walking down the street when a marginal person approached and snatched her wallet" , "Current economic policy is a marginal factory that throws thousands of people out of the system" .
The concept of marginality refers to a theory that indicates the coexistence of a traditional social segment along with a modern one, which represents an obstacle in the search for growth on a personal and economic level independently. It speaks of the regions that have not yet incorporated the values and norms of modern human beings. This term is often used as a synonym for marginalization ; Let's see below why this is an error.
Poverty is a cause of marginality.
Marginalization and the marginal
The structural phenomenon that arises from the difficulty in achieving the spread of technical progress in all production sectors is known as marginalization . At the social level, this is an inequality with respect to the intervention of citizens and various social groups in development processes and the subsequent use of their fruits.
Marginalized beings see their place in society affected, as well as their access to education and housing, without forgetting their monetary income. For the State , one of the most obvious consequences is that the population is dispersed.
When the dimension of marginalization in a territory is identified, the percentage of illiteracy is studied to try to evaluate the educational level of the population. Other indicators that are taken into account are the percentages of homes without water installation, without electricity, without drainage and with dirt floors, as well as the average number of people per room.
Once all these variables are gathered, they can be reduced to a single one to determine the degree of marginalization experienced in a particular locality. There are various methods, each with its own procedure and a series of possible results; For example, a statistical technique can yield one of the following strata of marginalization: very low , low , medium , high and very high .
It is important to note that marginalization speaks of the localities and not necessarily of their inhabitants . In fact, a high level of marginalization in a city does not prevent a group of people from having a very good standard of living .
Cost type
Marginal cost or marginal cost , on the other hand, is the increase in production costs by increasing the quantity produced by one unit.
The evolution of marginal cost can be expressed graphically through a concave parabola due to the action of the law of diminishing returns (the minimum point of the curve reflects the number of goods to be produced with minimum costs).