Marginalization refers to the weakening of social ties between an individual and society, which can lead to social exclusion. It is a multidimensional concept relating to lack of integration and resources in areas of production, reproduction, and power. The basic dimensions of marginalization - lack of participation in work, family, consumerism, civic engagement, and influence - interact and reinforce one another, creating a vicious cycle. Marginalization diminishes an individual's life chances due to changes in social connections and opportunities.

1. Marginalization
&
social exclusion

2. The terms marginalization
and social exclusion
describe the sociological
but proportionally
traceable phenomena of
social life

4. Marginalization means,
generally speaking,
weakening of the ligatures
between the individual and
the society

5. Social exclusion is the
utmost form of
marginalization

6. Being on margin of
various social fields is a
contextual possibility for
each human being

7. Therefore only permanent
marginality produces the
possibility of being outside,
alienation and finally social
exclusion

8. The marginalized are
those who have been
left on the dark edges
of the stage

9. The question is always of
individuals being outside
in relation to being inside
in certain social context

10. Marginalization is a
multidimensional concept. It’s a
viewpoint on a metaphor coint
to discribe a group of
associated problems
It can point to:

11. PRODUCTION
Exclusion from
school, working
life, and (or)
consumer society

12. REPRODUCTION
Exclusion
from the
society of
the“normal”

13. EXERCISE OF POWER
Exclusion from
mechanism of
power and
influence

14. The basic dimensions of
marginalization - production,
reproduction, exercise of
power - includes in every
classifications of
marginalization by the way or
another

15. The basic dimension of
marginalization are in analogy
with central dimensions of
integration, life-control,
empowerment and
wellbeing...

16. ...in addition to which
marginalization relates to
lack of resources, mostly
economic, social and
cultural

17. Power and influence
Civic integration,
Self-management
Power over
Being
Social integration Economic integration
Co-operation with others Task management
Power with Power in
Loving Having
Reproduction Production
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18. The basic dimensions of
marginalization/ lack of
basic resources link up and
interact with one another
in vicious circle

19. Lack of social or cultural
capital often leads to lack
of money...

20. ...and poverty imposes
the hardest problems
on those least capable of
dealing with them

21. Marginalization denotes the
situation in which the life
chances of the individual
have diminished because of
changes in social ligatures
and options

22. Education as a preventive
intervention of possible marginalization
New educational possibilities for unemployed
or young people at risk
Willingness for education or (re)habilitation
as a precondition for unemployment benefits