ABSTRACT
Germani’s sociology of marginality contains a descriptive and explanatory plane (Germani 1972, 199–212; 1980, 3–21). The preceding chapter presented a descriptive analysis with the aim of providing a precise definition of the phenomenon, as well as of drafting descriptive typologies or operative dimensions. Here, on the contrary, we will present and analyze the causal model in order to understand and explain how marginality occurs, distinguishing between two orders of analysis:
The theory of circular causes
The multifactor analysis of marginality
