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Social Marginalization

Marginalization refers to processes that ignore or relegate individuals and groups to the sidelines of political debate, social negotiation, and economic bargaining. Homelessness, age, language, employment status, skill, race, and religion have historically been used as criteria to marginalize groups. Marginalized groups tend to overlap, so groups excluded in one arena such as political life also face exclusion in other arenas like economic status. Socially marginalized populations in India include those treated as less important due to caste, sex, disability, religion, or inputs considered insignificant by those in power. The Indian Constitution includes provisions to promote the interests of scheduled castes, tribes, and other weaker sections while protecting citizens from discrimination based on caste

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Social Marginalization

Marginalization refers to processes that ignore or relegate individuals and groups to the sidelines of political debate, social negotiation, and economic bargaining. Homelessness, age, language, employment status, skill, race, and religion have historically been used as criteria to marginalize groups. Marginalized groups tend to overlap, so groups excluded in one arena such as political life also face exclusion in other arenas like economic status. Socially marginalized populations in India include those treated as less important due to caste, sex, disability, religion, or inputs considered insignificant by those in power. The Indian Constitution includes provisions to promote the interests of scheduled castes, tribes, and other weaker sections while protecting citizens from discrimination based on caste

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SOCIAL

MARGINALISATI
SWETA SHARMA
ON
B.COM(P)
20202510
MARGINALISATION
• Marginalization comprises those processes by which
individuals and groups are ignored or relegated to the
sidelines of political debate, social negotiation, and
economic bargaining—and kept there.
•  Homelessness, age, language, employment status,
skill, race, and religion are some criteria historically
used to marginalize.
• Marginalized groups tend to overlap; groups excluded
in one arena, say in political life, tend to be excluded
in other arenas, say in economic status.
SOCIAL MARGINALIZATION
• Socially marginalized means that a person is
backward from the so called forward classes in the
national mainstream. Many provisions are provided
to such socially marginalized peoples.
• Examples of marginalized populations include, but
are not limited to, groups excluded due to race,
gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical
ability, language, and/or immigration status.
Marginalization occurs due to unequal power
relationships between social groups.
WHAT DOES IT MEANS TO BE SOCIALLY
MARGINALIZED?
• People who are treated as less important or insignificant and are considered as people of lower
status, are the people who are called marginalised. Some sections of the Indian society refers
to them as untouchables. There are various reasons why marginalised people are treated the
way they are treated. One of the reasons why they are treated this way is because their inputs
to the society are treated as insignificant by the people in power.
Caste is the basis on which the Indian constitution recognises socially marginalised
communities. In India we can also see marginalisation happening on the basis of sex,
disability and caste.

• The constitution of India has many provisions which deals with making sure that
marginalisation does not happen in the society. One of the provisions is Article 46 in which
the economic and educational interests of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other
weaker sections are promoted.

• In the Fundamental Rights too we can find that the Indian constitution provides marginalised
sections with protection and safeguard against discrimination. Untouchability has been
abolished and this has been clearly stated in Article 17 of the Indian constitution. No citizen of
India will be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, caste, sex and place of birth,
this has been given in the Article 15 of the Indian Constitution.
CAUSES AND FORMS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
•Political exclusion can include the denial of citizenship rights such as political participation
and the right to organise, and also of personal security, the rule of law, freedom of expression
and equality of opportunity. Bhalla and Lapeyre (1997: 420) argue that political exclusion
also involves the notion that the state, which grants basic rights and civil liberties, is not a
neutral agency but a vehicle of a society’s dominant classes, and may thus discriminate
between social groups.

•Economic exclusion includes lack of access to labour markets, credit and other forms of
‘capital assets’.

•Social exclusion may take the form of discrimination along a number of dimensions


including gender, ethnicity and age, which reduce the opportunity for such groups to gain
access to social services and limits their participation in the labour market.

•Cultural exclusion refers to the extent to which diverse values, norms and ways of living
are accepted and respected.
FACTORS OF SOCIAL MARGINALISATION

There are multiple reasons for Marginalisation which are written


below:
• Sexual orientation and gender.
• Religion or ethnicity.
• Geography or history.
• Less representation in political spheres.
• Different culture or rituals.
• Different language or clothing.
• Caste and Class.
• Poverty or Race.
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