Alexey Gusev 1
Marginalization and cosmopolitanism: contemporary views on social consequences of spatial relocation intensification
2009,
vol. 8,
No. 2,
pp. 72–79
[issue contents]
The contemporary sociologists' views on such issues as social identification diffusion, marginalization and decadence of national states are the subject of a current paper. Author's point of view is a bit unusual: all the above-mentioned processes are analyzed as consequences of movement in a physical space; however, the movement is no doubt a social fact (but not geographic or physical). The order of sociologists' positions examining is logical: first examined author is Zygmunt Bauman, whose works unveil the most abstract and ontological foundations of the marginalization process. Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck are the next: the level of their theoretical constructions is a bit more grounded. The paper is finalized with the John Urry's views analysis: his mobile sociology is crucial in the frame of current topic, however, theoretically distant from previous sociologists.
Keywords:
migration;
marginality;
social identity;
national state;
mobility;
marginalization;
the stranger;
cosmopolitanism;
tourism;
spatial movements
Citation:
Gusev Alexey (2009) Marginalizatsiya i kosmopolitizm: vzglyady sovremennykh teoretikov na sotsial'nye posledstviya intensifikatsii prostranstvennykh peremeshcheniy [Marginalization and cosmopolitanism: contemporary views on social consequences of spatial relocation intensification] The Russian Sociological Review, 2, pp. 72-79 (in Russian)