marginal mann.

Brit.

/ˈmɑːdʒɪnl ˈman/,

/ˈmɑːdʒn̩l ˈman/, U.S.

/ˈmɑrdʒənəl ˈmæn/

Inflections: Plural marginal men.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marginal adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < marginal adj. + man n.¹

1. Economics. A worker who generates profits only just sufficient to balance the costs of his employment.

ΚΠ

1891 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 5 301 It is the competition of employers that, under the free working of natural law, gives to the marginal man the full amount of his product.

1920 A. Marshall Princ. Econ. (ed. 8) vi. i. 517 The farmer's interests are equally served by hiring 10 or 11 men; but..the eleventh man (supposed to be of normal efficiency) is the marginal man, when the markets for labour and sheep are such that one man can be hired..for the price of 20 sheep.

1934 Punch 17 Oct. 424/1 People babble cheerfully about the Marginal Man, the law of Diminishing Returns and so on.

1955 Amer. Econ. Rev. 45 290 The value added by the setting to work of a marginal man from among the unemployed being just offset by the loss of value resulting from the frictions and dislocations of ‘overfull employment’.

1987 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 47 79 The vast majority of weavers..became marginal men, eking out a living while trade was good and depending on the parish when it was not.

2. Sociology. A man (in generic use, a person) who belongs partly to two differing social groups or cultures but is not fully integrated into either (sometimes with the implication of a capacity to mediate between the two); (in wider use) a person who is isolated from or perceived to be at the edge of a society or a social or cultural group.

ΚΠ

1928 R. E. Park in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 881 (heading) Human migration and the marginal man.

1928 R. E. Park in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 881 One of the consequences of migration is to create a situation in which the same individual..finds himself striving to live in two diverse cultural groups. The effect is to produce an unstable character... This is the ‘marginal man’.

1937 E. V. Stonequist (title) The marginal man: a study in personality and culture conflict.

1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society iv. 108 Sandombu was from many points of view..an atypical, marginal man in Mukanza Village.

1963 Rev. Eng. Stud. 14 258 A homosexual, he regarded himself as a marginal man, out of step with society, yet contemptuous of its hypocritical standards.

1978 Dædalus Summer p. vi The concept of marginality, like the idea of anomie, was immensely important to Rousseau. He thought himself to be a marginal man, and indeed made himself such.

1990 Contemp. Sociol. 19 96/2 Vigil often uses the idea of the marginal man to refer to a person who seeks membership and assimilation in the host society and is met with hostility.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	marginal man
释义	marginal mann. Brit. /ˈmɑːdʒɪnl ˈman/, /ˈmɑːdʒn̩l ˈman/, U.S. /ˈmɑrdʒənəl ˈmæn/ Inflections: Plural marginal men. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: marginal adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < marginal adj. + man n.¹ 1. Economics. A worker who generates profits only just sufficient to balance the costs of his employment. ΚΠ 1891 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 5 301 It is the competition of employers that, under the free working of natural law, gives to the marginal man the full amount of his product. 1920 A. Marshall Princ. Econ. (ed. 8) vi. i. 517 The farmer's interests are equally served by hiring 10 or 11 men; but..the eleventh man (supposed to be of normal efficiency) is the marginal man, when the markets for labour and sheep are such that one man can be hired..for the price of 20 sheep. 1934 Punch 17 Oct. 424/1 People babble cheerfully about the Marginal Man, the law of Diminishing Returns and so on. 1955 Amer. Econ. Rev. 45 290 The value added by the setting to work of a marginal man from among the unemployed being just offset by the loss of value resulting from the frictions and dislocations of ‘overfull employment’. 1987 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 47 79 The vast majority of weavers..became marginal men, eking out a living while trade was good and depending on the parish when it was not. 2. Sociology. A man (in generic use, a person) who belongs partly to two differing social groups or cultures but is not fully integrated into either (sometimes with the implication of a capacity to mediate between the two); (in wider use) a person who is isolated from or perceived to be at the edge of a society or a social or cultural group. ΚΠ 1928 R. E. Park in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 881 (heading) Human migration and the marginal man. 1928 R. E. Park in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 33 881 One of the consequences of migration is to create a situation in which the same individual..finds himself striving to live in two diverse cultural groups. The effect is to produce an unstable character... This is the ‘marginal man’. 1937 E. V. Stonequist (title) The marginal man: a study in personality and culture conflict. 1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society iv. 108 Sandombu was from many points of view..an atypical, marginal man in Mukanza Village. 1963 Rev. Eng. Stud. 14 258 A homosexual, he regarded himself as a marginal man, out of step with society, yet contemptuous of its hypocritical standards. 1978 Dædalus Summer p. vi The concept of marginality, like the idea of anomie, was immensely important to Rousseau. He thought himself to be a marginal man, and indeed made himself such. 1990 Contemp. Sociol. 19 96/2 Vigil often uses the idea of the marginal man to refer to a person who seeks membership and assimilation in the host society and is met with hostility. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1891
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