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Margins of The Mind (Paperback)
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Margins of The Mind (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Personality
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'Psychologists have mapped out developmental stages for the first
fifteen to twenty years; but thereafter life is a blank. Half a
century of adult life remains, psychologically speaking, an
unchartered waste.' Frank Musgrove focuses on the question 'Can
adults change?' and challenges the still widely-held view that
adult life is static. Originally published in 1977, the author
examines change principally in terms of a modification of
consciousness through the experience of marginality. With the help
of interviews, he discusses seven groups in contemporary Britain at
the time, found in the 'margins' of society. Three of the selected
groups are involuntary and stigmatized: men and women who have gone
blind as adults; handicapped people in a home for the incurably
disabled; and homosexuals. The other four groups enjoy high-status
and voluntary marginality: late-entrants to the Anglican ministry;
self-employed artists; a Sufi commune of Islamic mystics; and a
Hare Krishna commune. Frank Musgrove's lively study of adult
resocialization will be of interest to sociologists,
anthropologists and anyone concerned with the general problem of
adjustment to rapid social change. It also relates marginality to
the issue of life-long learning and points to some of the creative
possibilities of the marginal situation.
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