释义 |
marginalization, n.|ˌmɑːdʒɪnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən| [f. marginalize v. + -ation, or ad. F. marginalisation.] The process or result of becoming or making marginal, esp. as a group within a larger society.
1973Universities Q. Summer 283 This process of inpoverishment [sic]..Latin American investigators have rightly described as the marginalization of the masses. This process takes various forms: proletarianization of farmers..and of craftsmen; semi-proletarianization; [etc.]. 1984Listener 16 Feb. 10/3 A wholesale exclusion of, or, at best, a marginalisation of foreign thinking, both past and present. 1987New Internationalist May 14/1 In the U.S...the ‘underclass’ is largely black and isolated in urban ghettos, so its marginalization is much less disturbing to prosperous Americans than are the visible unemployed within more homogeneous European countries. 1990D. Walder in Lit. in Mod. World (1991) II. v. 233 McGrath reminds his Cambridge undergraduate audience of his position, as a product of the northern English working class; and of the relevance of such reminders when considering questions of assimilation and marginalization. |