Kristin Melton-- Victor Turner 3

Turner defines 'Marginality' as a category whose individuals often look to their group of origin, the inferior group, for communitas, and to the more prestigious group in which they mainly live, for the structural position, may be critics of the structure from the perspective of communitas.  This caught my attention because I have seen this term before in  Sociology courses.  From a sociological view point, marginality refers to the designation of a person or group as peripheral to the main group or groups of society/ the status of being part insider and at the same time part outsider in a society or social group.  This is often associated with the example of women CEOs.  This position has long term been male dominated and the women are often times marginalized by their male co-workers. Turner's definition can still apply to this situation.