Culture shock at universities : suburban students and their experience of marginality

Bhowmick, Arunima

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dc.contributor.author	Bhowmick, Arunima	-
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-09T07:09:04Z	-
dc.date.available	2020-11-09T07:09:04Z	-
dc.date.issued	2017-03-31	-
dc.identifier.issn	2348-6538	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3589	-
dc.description	Marginality is a condition of disadvantaged individuals and communities that arises due to unfavourable environmental, cultural, social, political and economic factors. The vulnerable situation that they confront can be either societal or spatial, very often, both. This paper seeks to understand predicaments and vulnerabilities of students coming to universities in metropolitan Kolkata from the margins of the city, more often referred to as the “suburbs”. The study is an attempt to relook marginality in the face of globalisation and dissect the context of regionalism in this light. The study has gathered strength from case studies of students coming to universities from these regions and an account of their conditions and sense of discrimination has been recorded. Their sense of marginality finds manifestation in difference of language, more precisely their speech and diction, fashion and most importantly lifestyle. Tracing the origin of the concept of marginality back to the one who coined it, Robert Ezra Park (1928), young students were found placed between multiple cultures and their negotiations give rise to a “hybrid” personality or the marginal man. Students from suburbs might not necessarily have pronounced class differences with the local residential students, but their possession of “cultural capital” and further access to it in the universities often become a ripe condition for furthering marginalization. Finally, the paper engages in addressing the vital question — whether to uphold “affirmative action” and support the marginal status, or create a collective of poorly privileged?	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of North Bengal	en_US
dc.subject	Marginality	en_US
dc.subject	Cultural capital	en_US
dc.subject	Affirmative action	en_US
dc.subject	Hybrid personality	en_US
dc.subject	Suburbs	en_US
dc.title	Culture shock at universities : suburban students and their experience of marginality	en_US
dc.title.alternative	SOCIAL TRENDS, Vol.4, 31 March 2017, p 56-69	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
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