The concept of 'Marginal Man' was propounded by

1. A

   Robert E. Park

   (a) Robert E. Park. The Chicago School sociologist coined ‘marginal man’ (1928) for the person at the edge of two cultures. Official key.

2. B

   Robert Redfield

   (b) Robert Redfield. Redfield is folk–urban continuum and Little Community, not marginal man.

3. C

   Louis Wirth

   (c) Louis Wirth. Wirth wrote Urbanism as a Way of Life (1938), a Chicago colleague, not the marginal-man coinage.

4. D

   Louis Dumont

   (d) Louis Dumont. Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus is Indian caste theory, unrelated to Park’s phrase.

Summary. Official key is (a) Robert E. Park. Marginal man is Park’s (and later Stonequist’s) idea of a personality formed between two social worlds. Redfield, Wirth and Dumont are neighbouring sociology names that trap Indian papers. The keyed propounder is Park.