Jamal Awil

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But being outside, in this case. [fact]

Thus the poor person stands undoubtedly outside the group, inasmuch as he is a mere object of the actions of the collectivity; but being outside, in this case, is only, to put it briefly, a particular form of being inside.

DEFINE: Clarifies how marginalization is itself a structurally defined relationship — exclusion is a mode of inclusion within the collective order.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 435