Lumpen




Usually by the lumpen include people whose social roots are missing, where also there is no ownership, and they live at the expense of one-time earnings. But often their source of livelihood are various types of social and state benefits. In General, this category should include homeless people and other citizens like them. If you explain it more simply, the lumpen – human, non-driving work activities, he begging, wandering, in other words – the homeless.


Translated from the German word "lumpen" means "ragged". It's kind of beggars, who fell to the "bottom" of life, fell out of their environment. The more the society becomes the lumpen, the greater the threat to society they represent. Their environment is a stronghold of various extremist individuals and organizations. Marxist theory even used such an expression as Lumpenproletariat, describing the word vagrants, criminals, beggars and the dregs of human society in General. During the Soviet era it was a dirty word.


Marginal




Marginal and lumpen are not one and the same concept, although these groups of people have a lot in common. The concept of "marginality" in sociology means a person who is between two different social groups, when one of them is a citizen already broke, and the second has not yet arrived. This so-called outstanding representatives of the lower classes, or the social "bottom". A similar social position greatly affects the psyche, crippling her. Often, marginals are people the last war, immigrants who could not adapt to the living conditions in their new homeland, who were unable to fit into the social conditions of the modern environment.


While held in the Soviet Union collectivization in 20-30 years, the villagers EN masse migrated to the cities, but the urban environment took them reluctantly, and with the rural environment all roots and ties were severed. They have ruined spiritual values, were eager to established social ties. And it is these segments of the population required a "strong hand", set at the state level, and this fact served as the social base of the anti-democratic regime.


As you can see, lumpen and marginal – these are not synonymous concepts, although they have much in common. In modern times the word "lumpen" almost no use, calling the homeless marginalized. Although this word can be described and people who have housing, but leading an asocial life.